His wife Helma died of cancer on 29 October 1944, although Schwitters only heard of her death in December ; at about the same time, he discovered that the Merzbau had been destroyed during an allied air raid.

Konstantin Päts and his wife Helma.

Though he was undoubtedly devoted to her, Einhard wrote nothing of his wife until after her death on 13 December 835, when he wrote to a friend that he was reminded of her loss in ‘ every day, in every action, in every undertaking, in all the administration of the house and household, in everything needing to be decided upon and sorted out in my religious and earthly responsibilities ’.

In AD 4, persuaded by Livia, his wife, Augustus decided in favour of Tiberius, his stepson from Livia's first marriage to Tiberius Nero.

" Having an interest in Rosicrucianism, a prominent magico-religious tradition within Western esotericism, Gardner decided to attend one of the plays performed by the group ; in August 1939, Gardner took his wife to a theatrical performance based on the life of Pythagoras.

He was joined by his young wife Anna Larina, which therefore opened the possibility of exile, but he decided against it saying that he could not live outside the Soviet Union.

After a series of odd jobs, Anthony decided to join the U. S. Army in 1957 for a steady source of income and medical coverage for his pregnant wife.

Pirsig discusses this incident in an afterword to subsequent editions of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, writing that he and his second wife, Kimball, decided not to abort the child she conceived in 1980, because he had come to believe that this unborn child was a continuation of the life pattern that Chris had occupied.

He and his wife decided to move to the French Riviera.

Giraldus says that Rhys decided to go on crusade himself and spent several weeks making preparations, but was eventually persuaded to change his mind by his wife Gwenllian, " by female artifices ".

His parents decided to dedicate a university to their only son, and Leland Stanford told his wife, " The children of California shall be our children.

After the wife forcefully impregnates her husband, things take a decided turn for the worse as they separately try to deal with the object of the former wife's affections — a deplorably predictable square-jawed philanderer by the name of Carl Bently.

The trip continued to Fairbanks ( July 15 ) where it was decided ( July 16 ) that the President and his wife would return to Seward ( July 17 ) via the railroad.

In 1799 he decided that he couldn't tolerate another winter in the cold and draughty Edgbaston Hall, so he bought " The Larches " in the nearby Sparkbrook area ; his wife did not feel up to the move and remained at Edgbaston Hall.

Although a number of his peers decided to stay in the United States, Lee Hoi-chuen decided to go back to Hong Kong after his wife gave birth to Bruce Lee.

His family joined him before the end of the ballet season that year and they decided to remain in the West for a time, as his wife was expecting their third child.

When Carmack was on vacation with his wife, he ended up playing some games on her cellphone, and decided he was going to make a good mobile game.

These years shaped his future life: he composed for his fellow students who performed everything he composed, he decided to become a college professor and in 1959 he married his first wife, a fellow student, Georganna Towne.

Also in 794, Emperor Constantine VI ( r. 776 – 797 ) decided to separate from his first wife, Maria of Amnia, and to marry Maria's kubikularia ( Lady-in-waiting ), Theodote, a cousin of Theodore the Studite.

It was Engelhard's wife Jane who decided that the colt should be named after the dancer Vaslav Nijinsky.

* The god Njord and his wife Skadi decided to settle their argument over where to live by agreeing to spend nine nights in Thrymheim and nine nights at Nóatún.

Kelley did not become a leading man, however, and he and his wife, Carolyn, decided to move to New York City.

On his return home, concerned about the general decline in his home country, he decided that he and his family would emigrate and so, in 1950, he settled with his wife and two daughters on farmland at Langwarrin, south-east of Melbourne.

However, when his second wife Mary was killed in a riding accident in 1978 in Sydney, he decided to return to active politics, first serving as a shadow minister without portfolio in the Shadow Cabinets of Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher, then serving again as Lord Chancellor from 1979 to 1987 under Margaret Thatcher.

When Zeus decided to end the Bronze Age with the great deluge, Deucalion and his wife, Pyrrha, were the only survivors.

He is a target of ridicule to his wife, and often -- since private affairs rarely remain private -- to the outside world as well.

In contrast to the book of Ezra ( or not-see section below ), Malachi urges each to remain steadfast to the wife of his youth.

Circe fell in love with him too ; when he preferred to remain faithful to his wife Canens, she turned him into a woodpecker ( lines 308-440 ).

agents who question his odd choice to not contact his wife and family or remain at the crash site with the other survivors.

If his wife dies, he may not remarry and must remain celibate.

On June 10, 2000, Mihdhar left the United States and returned to Yemen to visit his wife, against the wishes of Mohammed who wanted him to remain in the United States to help Hazmi adapt.

His wife Bertha ( not to be confused with their granddaughter ), was unwilling to remain in polluted Essen in Villa Hügel, the ungainly but fireproof castle which Krupp designed.

Frigg, a major goddess and Odin's wife, says that what Loki and Odin did in the ancient past should not be spoken of in front of others, and that ancient matters should always remain hidden.

Paulinus refused to remain in Barcelona, and in late spring of 395 he and his wife moved from Spain to Nola in Campagna, where he remained until his death.

Heinlein and his second wife divorced in 1947, and on October 21 of the following year he married Virginia " Ginny " Gerstenfeld, to whom he would remain married until his death forty years later.

Despite the divorce story, Ní Mháille and Bourke appear as mentioned as husband and wife in English documents of the period, so appeared to remain married, at least allied, as far as the English were concerned.

However, due to the fact that Mandela was only the Inkosi's child by a wife of the Ixhiba lineage, a so-called " Left-Hand House ", the descendants of his cadet branch of the Thembu royal family remain ineligible to succeed to the Thembu throne, which is itself one of the several traditional seats that are still officially recognized by South Africa's government.

On November 17 that same year O ' Brien married his second wife Darlyne Prenett with whom he would remain until his death.

Anne Marie would remain a devoted wife.

For example, if a baronet has died and the title has passed to his son, the widow ( the new baronet's mother ) will remain " Lady < Bloggs >" if he is unmarried, but if he is married his wife becomes " Lady < Bloggs >" while his mother will be known by the style "< Alice >, Lady < Bloggs >".

He and his wife sought to remain connected with a university town ( the University of Michigan ) after their hopes of returning to Harvard after the war were put on hold.

Jean-Claude's wife and advisers, intent on maintaining their grip on power, urged him to put down the rebellion and remain in office.

In June Owen left William in New Harmony while he traveled east to continue promoting his model community and returned to Scotland, where he sold his interests in the New Lanark textile mills and arranged financial support for his wife and two daughters, who chose to remain in Scotland.

An earlier settler by the name of Jones had arrived in 1836 with his wife, but did not remain in the area.

He buys a house in Beverly Hills from opera singer Lawrence Tibbett, planning to stay while his wife and two daughters remain in the New York suburb of Scarsdale.

In 1827, Robert Burke, whose wife operated a tavern at what is now Ozone established the Crab Orchard Inn, which would remain open until the early 20th century.

Following this he withdrew from public life, preferring to remain at his home with his wife Máirín where he continued to be dogged by ill-health.

Currently Smith and his wife remain involved members of the church.