Actor Gene Hackman passed away last month, about a week after his wife and caretaker Betsy Arakawa as both of their bodies were found in their Santa Fe home. With both Hackman and Arakawa passing away around the same time, Hackman’s family now faces a rather heartbreaking problem.

Given the large age gap between Hackman, who was 95, and Arakawa, who was 65, Hackman’s family always expected that the actor would pass away first. As a result, Tim Hackman, Gene’s nephew, revealed that the family had left any and all funeral plans up to Arakawa, given that she was his caretaker and handled most aspects of his life in his later years.

“So the preparedness of it was that he would go first and that we would probably, maybe, depending on whatever it was [Betsy] had set up, would go down there and pay our condolences and everything,” Tim said in a recent interview with The Daily Mail following Hackman’s death.

Obviously, with Arakawa passing away too, this presents quite a problem for the Hackman family as they now have to make arrangements for the star actor’s funeral themselves.

“Now with this, it significantly changes things. I have no idea what – I’m assuming one of his kids will probably take over – and [plan]. I don’t know,” Tim admitted.

Hackman had three children – Christopher, 65, Elizabeth, 63 and Leslie, 58. It’s not clear whether or not the three children have made funeral plans, but it seems like those arrangements will now suddenly fall on them after they had “prepared” for Arakawa to handle all of those details.

Chief Medical Investigator Dr. Heather Jarrell determined that the former actor was “in a very poor state of health” before his death, finding evidence of a number of health conditions.

“Mr. Hackman showed evidence of advanced Alzheimer’s disease,” Jarrell said. “He was in a very poor state of health. He had significant heart disease, and I think ultimately that’s what resulted in his death.”

Arakawa, who took care of Hackman in his later years, died of a rare disease typically transmitted by rodents about a week before Hackman passed away.