21.   Milton Rubincam was born in Philadelphia and grew up in Ocean City, N.J., where his widowed mother ran a hotel.

22.   Raised by a widowed mother, helped along by neighbors, Crew used sports to anchor his life.

23.   See and his widowed mother, Mary, who was known for her homemade candies.

24.   Several days later, Ms. Pavlinac, a widowed mother of four, called the sheriff to report that Sosnovske had bragged of murdering the victim.

25.   She grew up poor on a farm out in the country, raised by her widowed mother and grandparents.

26.   She and her two brothers were raised by a widowed mother.

27.   She has never married, and her only companion on her overseas postings has been her widowed mother Margaret.

28.   She said she felt the obligation, in her courting years, to keep her widowed mother company at home.

29.   She was the widowed mother of two.

30.   Sixty-seven percent of refugees and the internally displaced are women, many of them widowed mothers.