"Alice Howell wrote During my years with the local utility service, we
gave widows their choice of how they wanted the name on the account. I
think it was about even in the numbers that kept the husband's name and the
ones that changed the first name."
That practice is ok if you knew them as a couple, but if you meet the widow
later in life and only know her by her given name, then it is almost
impossible to find her in the phone book.
A neighbour of my dad, who's husband died several years ago, still has her
husband's voice on the answering machine. All her/their friends think it is
spooky to hear Mac's voice after all this time, and many won't leave a
message.
Malvary in Ottawa, Canada
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