For years, some citizens of the fading mecca attached their troubles to a curse placed on the town by a bereaved widow.

The bereaved widow cursed the town, took her husband's body home in a tin-lined coffin filled, it was said, with a keg of whiskey.

With his family, she plays the uncomfortable role of bereaved widow.

And Miss Allen has been upset by the misplaced sympathy she's received; everyone has supposed her the bereaved widow.

But coming from a bereaved widow and mother, her insults had to be accepted; he felt like taking his own life instead.

There was nothing of the bereaved widow about her, and she appeared to be in no need of sympathy.

He left behind a bereaved widow and two sons.

And me a bereaved widow, practically.

A ring verified her story of being a bereaved widow.

For instance, in a study of bereaved widows and widowers, Bonanno used a technique called verbal autonomic association.