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| Swiss glacier reveals couple lost in 1942 | Swiss glacier reveals couple lost in 1942 |
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| A shrinking glacier in Switzerland has revealed two frozen bodies believed to be of a couple who went missing 75 years ago, Swiss media report. | A shrinking glacier in Switzerland has revealed two frozen bodies believed to be of a couple who went missing 75 years ago, Swiss media report. |
| Marcelin and Francine Dumoulin disappeared after going to tend to their cows in the Alps in 1942. | Marcelin and Francine Dumoulin disappeared after going to tend to their cows in the Alps in 1942. |
| The couple had seven children. | The couple had seven children. |
| Their youngest daughter, 79, said the news brought her a "deep sense of calm" and she wanted to give them the funeral they deserved. | Their youngest daughter, 79, said the news brought her a "deep sense of calm" and she wanted to give them the funeral they deserved. |
| "We spent our whole lives looking for them," Marceline Udry-Dumoulin told Lausanne daily Le Matin. | "We spent our whole lives looking for them," Marceline Udry-Dumoulin told Lausanne daily Le Matin. |
| A DNA test has yet to be carried out. | A DNA test has yet to be carried out. |
| Local police said the bodies were discovered last week on Tsanfleuron glacier, above the Les Diablerets resort, by a worker from ski-lift company, Glacier 3000. | Local police said the bodies were discovered last week on Tsanfleuron glacier, above the Les Diablerets resort, by a worker from ski-lift company, Glacier 3000. |
| Director Bernhard Tschannen said his employee found some backpacks, tin bowls and a glass bottle, as well as male and female shoes, and part of a body under the ice. | Director Bernhard Tschannen said his employee found some backpacks, tin bowls and a glass bottle, as well as male and female shoes, and part of a body under the ice. |
| He said that it was likely the couple had fallen into a crevice and the way they were dressed implied that they could have been there for 70 or 80 years. | He said that it was likely the couple had fallen into a crevice and the way they were dressed implied that they could have been there for 70 or 80 years. |
| "The bodies were lying near each other. It was a man and a woman wearing clothing dating from the period of World War Two," he told Le Matin. | "The bodies were lying near each other. It was a man and a woman wearing clothing dating from the period of World War Two," he told Le Matin. |
| Ms Udry-Dumoulin said her mother, a teacher, never usually went on such walks with her husband, a shoemaker, because she spent much of her adult life pregnant and it was difficult terrain. | Ms Udry-Dumoulin said her mother, a teacher, never usually went on such walks with her husband, a shoemaker, because she spent much of her adult life pregnant and it was difficult terrain. |
| She said she and her siblings were placed with different families, and lost contact over the years. | |
| She told Le Matin that she wanted to hold a long-awaited funeral, but would not wear black. | She told Le Matin that she wanted to hold a long-awaited funeral, but would not wear black. |
| "I think that white would be more appropriate. It represents hope, which I never lost," she said. | "I think that white would be more appropriate. It represents hope, which I never lost," she said. |