Clallam County identifies couple that died while husband was trying to revive wife

A couple found dead Friday in their Clallam County home have been identified as Charles and Geraldine Lorme.

Charles Lorme, 61, apparently died trying to save his wife with CPR last Wednesday. Firefighters found him on top of his wife, 59, in the couple's house in the tiny town of Joyce on the Olympic Peninsula.

Rescuers tried unsuccessfully to revive the couple, but both died at the scene.

Firefighters had responded to a 911 call of a CPR in progress about 9:45 p.m. Wednesday. The husband called 911 and told the dispatcher that his wife had collapsed, wasn't breathing and had no pulse. He also said he was starting CPR.

With the dispatcher still on the phone, the call went silent, said Jim Borte, spokesman with the Clallam County Sheriff's Office.

Rescuers broke into the house and said they found the man slumped over the woman, indicating the man had been trying to perform CPR on his wife.

Their cause of death is pending an autopsy and police said there is no suspicion of foul play.