After being hit by a motor vehicle outside the Galaxy Bar on the corner of 16th and Ridge Streets, Philadelphia, Burke was taken into the Germantown home of the driver, Lathella Thompson, a recently widowed doctor, who feared losing her driver's licence.

The son of a former doctor in the French navy, Henri Lacordaire was born on the 12 May 1802 at Recey-sur-Ource ( Côte-d ' Or ) and raised in Dijon by his mother, Anne Dugied, the daughter of a lawyer at the Parliament of Bourgogne who was widowed at an early age, when her husband died in 1806.

The story revolves around Molly Gibson, only daughter of a widowed doctor living in a provincial English town in the 1830s.

The three have different backgrounds: Barrett is a code breaker, Stirling a pilot, and Macready a recently widowed scientist and doctor.

Gilbert aspires to become a doctor and goes on to study at Redmond College, where he is joined by Anne, freed of personal obligations after the widowed Rachel Lynde moves to Green Gables to keep Marilla company, in Anne of the Island.

In the pilot episode, a group of musical siblings in the fictitious city of San Pueblo, California convinces their recently widowed mother, Shirley Partridge ( Shirley Jones ), to help them out by singing as they record a pop song in their garage.

In 1979, Jones tried her hand at television for the second time starring in Shirley which, like, The Partridge Family, featured a family headed by a widowed mother, but failed to win ratings, and was canceled toward the middle of the season.

Lee Meriwether, 1955 Miss America, played Barnaby's widowed daughter-in-law, Betty Jones.

His widowed daughter-in-law, Betty Jones ( Lee Meriwether ) joined forces with him to solve the case.

The lower unit is occupied by family patriarch Nesbit " Neb " Langston ( Jones ), a recently widowed police officer who has adopted a troubled 16-year-old foster child, Marcus Henry ( Merlin Santana ).

When Andy marries his longtime girlfriend Helen Crump on the spinoff Mayberry R. F. D., she opts to give the newlyweds their own space and becomes housekeeper for farmer Sam Jones ( another widowed father ) and his young son Mike.

The next year Berry was cast in a guest star role on The Andy Griffith Show as Sam Jones, a widowed farmer.

" Following Jones ' death, The Daily Telegraph wrote in her obituary: " As a deft exponent of Blanche ’ s withering one-liners and put-downs, Maggie Jones made the part her own, stealing scene after scene as the acid-tongued widowed mother of Deirdre [...] Maggie Jones's portrayal of Blanche as a meddlesome busybody was beautifully judged and finely understated.

On a journey to Tuscany with her young friend and traveling companion Caroline Abbott, widowed Lilia Herriton falls in love with both Italy and Gino, a handsome Italian much younger than herself, and decides to stay.

The recently widowed Duchess falls in love with Antonio, a lowly steward, but her brothers, not wishing her to share their inheritance, forbid her from remarrying.

Melite, a widowed lady from Ephesus, falls in love with him and convinces him to marry her.

The chroniclers exalt her as a " protector of the widowed " and " the thrice blessed ", and place a particular emphasis on Tamar's virtues as a woman: beauty, humility, love of mercy, fidelity, and purity.

Meanwhile, since the death of George, Dobbin, who is young George's godfather, gradually begins to express his love for the widowed Amelia by small kindnesses toward her and her son.

As a teenager she had lived with her poor widowed mother in the same building and had fallen totally in love with both the opulent cultured lifestyle of her neighbour and the handsome charming man himself.

There is an implicit double message: that love could gather all together as we are taught at Church, but also that some of those who on Sundays go to Church and publicly pretend to love are the same ones that from Monday to Saturday belonged to the Ku-Klux-Klan, killed the drunken black boy, got rid of their blinded brother in law or intended to force a widowed mother to part from her children instead of helping her in her troubles.

During a lengthened visit at Castell he fell in love with his cousin Theodora ; but the widowed countess, her mother, objected to the marriage, and the lady afterwards became the wife of Count Henry XXIX of Reuss and Zinzendorf married Reuss's sister Erdmuthe Dorothea.

Wert, however, had fallen in love with the widowed Tarquinia Molza, the most famous female singer and poet in Italy, who was a lady-in-waiting at the Este court, so he endeavored to spend as much time as possible in Ferrara.

The marriage may have been a love marriage ( there is some evidence that the widowed Eleanor became the earl's mistress on a pilgrimage circa 1343 ), or Richard may have been waiting to obtain a suitable high-born wife with royal connections.

In 1929, the aged and widowed, but still lively, Marchioness of Shayne is holding a party at her home in London to celebrate the impending society marriage of a young woman who, it turns out, is in love with another man, a poor musician (" That Wonderful Melody ").

Danielle, a little girl at age eight, lives with her widowed father, Auguste, who shares with her a love of books and progressive ideas.

It is then revealed that Coulter is in fact Lyra's mother by her love affair with Lord Asriel ( her title of " Mrs ." comes from her widowed marriage to Edward Coulter, who died before the events in the book.

Lord Shiva therefore appeared before the king's two widowed queens and commanded them, " You two make love together and by my blessings you will bear a beautiful son.

* Midway to Heaven ( 2011 ) – Based on the novel by Dean Hughes ; a widowed man tries to sabotage his daughter's relationship from a know-it-all man who drives him crazy, while trying to get a second chance in love.

Ms Powers ( the character ) after being widowed by Caroline's father, was due to marry her much younger fiancé David Wilde, but in the lead up to the wedding her daughter ( Caroline ) and fiancé David fell in love and ran off together.

Other roles included Elske in Die Reise nach Tilsit, the wholesome German wife whose husband betrays her with a Polish woman, but finally returns, repentant ; Elisabeth in Immensee, who marries a rich landowner to forget her unrequited love, and in the end decides to remain faithful even after she is widowed and her lover returns ; Aels in Opfergang, a woman who dies after her love affair ; Luise Treskow in The Great King, a miller's daughter who encourages Frederick the Great ; and Maria in Kolberg, a peasant girl who loyally supports the resistance to Napoleon and is the only survivor of her family.

Meanwhile, since the death of George, now-Major William Dobbin, who is young George's godfather, begins to express his love for the widowed Amelia by small kindnesses toward her and her son.

She and Gilbert spend a disagreeable evening with the widowed and childless Christine Stuart, who was once Anne's rival ( or so she thought ) for Gilbert's love.

The great love of Bukowski's life, Jane Cooney Baker (" Betty " in Post Office ), was a widowed alcoholic 11 years his senior with an immense beer belly.

It is said that he discovered the love intrigue between Antonio Pérez and the widowed princess of Eboli, Ana de Mendoza e de la Cerda.

When he first appears, he is an ostler for the Blue Dragon Inn in Salisbury, and is in love with the widowed landlady Mrs Lupin.

He was the son of a Scottish father and an American Jewish mother, long widowed, with whom he lived in a comfortable home in Flushing.

that aside from due notification of certain major events in their lives ( two marriages, two births, one divorce ), Christmas and Easter cards of the traditional sort had been the only thin link she had with them through the widowed years.

Normally there are no celibate priests who are not monastics in the Orthodox Church, with the exception of married priests who have been widowed.

At the age of sixteen, he left school and went to live with his widowed childless aunt, Marie-Jeanne Lecadre.

Before entering West Point, Poe moved back to Baltimore for a time, to stay with his widowed aunt Maria Clemm, her daughter, Virginia Eliza Clemm ( Poe's first cousin ), his brother Henry, and his invalid grandmother Elizabeth Cairnes Poe.

Upon the death of the Queen ( Maria Luisa of Savoy ), Alberoni in concert with La Trémoille arranged for a marriage in 1714 between the widowed King and Elisabetta Farnese, daughter of the Duke of Parma.

After William of Montferrat arrived in 1176, he fell ill and died in June 1177, leaving Sibylla widowed and pregnant with the future Baldwin V. Raynald was then named regent.

Lucretia's kinsman Lucius Junius Brutus ( himself a member of the Tarquin dynasty ) and Lucretia's widowed husband, Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus ( grand-nephew of Tarquinus Priscus and thus also a member of the dynasty ) led the revolt, along with Publius Valerius Poplicola, and Lucretia's aging father, Spurius Lucretius Tricipitinus.

He then moved back to his home town of Bologna where he lived with his widowed sister Maddalena to take up a professorship of mathematics at the University of Bologna in 1565.

Lightman escapes NORAD by joining a tourist group and, with Mack's help, travels to the Oregon island where the widowed Falken ( John Wood ) now lives under a new identity.

The series had Alf and Else living in a retirement home in Eastbourne with their widowed friend Min.

Two truck drivers, Goro and Gun ( Tsutomu Yamazaki and Ken Watanabe ), help the widowed Tampopo ( Nobuko Miyamoto ) with her failing ramen shop.

Philip Schuyler Green ( Gregory Peck ) is a widowed journalist who has just moved to New York City with his son Tommy ( Dean Stockwell ) and mother ( Anne Revere ).

His father died when he was young, and so John, his two older brothers and his widowed mother struggled with poverty, moving around and living in various Castilian villages, with the last being Medina del Campo, to which he moved in 1551.

In January 1924, she visited Paris with her recently widowed cousin Corinne Mustin, before sailing to the Far East aboard a troop carrier,.

Henry's half-brothers, Edmund and Jasper, the sons of his widowed mother's relationship with Owen Tudor, were later given earldoms.

His marriage to the widowed Lady Grey took place secretly and though the date is not accepted as exactly accurate is traditionally said to have taken place ( with only the bride's mother and two ladies in attendance ) at her family home in Northamptonshire on 1 May 1464, just over three years after he had taken the English throne subsequent to leading the Yorkists in an overwhelming victory over the Lancastrians at the Battle of Towton.

In 858, Bardas found himself opposed by the then Patriarch Ignatios, who refused to admit him into Hagia Sophia, since it was believed that he was having an affair with his widowed daughter-in-law, Eudoxia Ingerina.

In 1692, Caroline's widowed mother was pushed into an unhappy marriage with the Elector of Saxony, and she and her two children moved to the Saxon court at Dresden.

For years Hart was a bachelor and lived with his widowed mother.

By August, the widowed Queen was on her way back to Scotland in a French galley, some of the organisation having been dealt with by Bothwell in his naval capacity.

Rumor attributed his death to poison administered by his wife Theophano, but there is no evidence of this and Theophano would have been risking much by exchanging the secure status of a crowned Augusta with the precarious one of a widowed Regent of her very young children.