The Yahoo News website reports today (June 5, 2011) that identical twins Julian and Adrian Riester -- who were born seconds apart 92 years ago -- died hours apart on June 1, 2011.
The Buffalo-born brothers were also brothers in the Roman Catholic Order of Friars Minor. Professed friars for 65 years, they spent much of that time working together at St. Bonaventure University in western New York state, doing carpentry work, gardening, and driving visitors to and from the airport and around town.
They both died on June 1 at St. Anthony Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida -- Brother Julian in the morning and Brother Adrian in the evening. The inseparable twins had lived in St. Petersburg since moving there from western New York in 2008.
"It really is almost a poetic ending to the remarkable story of their lives," St. Bonaventure spokesman Tom Missel said. He added, "Stunning when you hear it, but hardly surprising given that they did almost everything together."
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