widowed

Part thriller, part true crime investigation, the nonfiction book uses one of the most heinous unsolved crimes of the Troubles — the 1972 disappearance of Jean McConville, a widowed mother of 10 who was abducted from her Belfast home by intruders assumed to be members of the Irish Republican Army — to explore the lingering trauma of political violence on survivors and perpetrators alike.

It was around that time that Im, who had lost his first wife to cancer, married Kim, who had also been widowed.

Retired BT engineer Bob was widowed during the Covid pandemic, which prompted him to start coming to the Wharfedale group.

She credited her optimism to her mother, a “tough cookie” who found creative ways to make their finances work after she was widowed, including renting out the front of the family home.

My mother, widowed but loyal to the lifestyle market as if it would protect her from the alienation of child rearing, was onto something.