LOS ANGELES, CA - Local man Herbert Patterson died of natural causes after waiting in his car for over sixty years for his wife to finish socializing at Second Avenue Baptist Church following a November 1956 service, sources confirmed Tuesday.

Patterson reportedly got into the couple's 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air about 30 minutes after the close of the service, right after being assured by his wife Betty that she would "only be a moment," and then they could go get a hamburger at McDonald's on the way home.

But when minutes turned to years, and years to decades, the man began to grow concerned.

"Well, that's Betty for you," Patterson said with a good-natured chuckle in a 2008 interview, as he continued to sit in the front seat of their car waiting for his wife. "Oh, by the way - don't tell m

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