Having been out of the TBM loop for more than forty years, this one took me by surprise.

Yesterday I read the obituary of a 93 year old lady in my home-town newspaper. She lived in a house directly across the alley from us and as a child I knew her well, not only as a neighbor across the back fence, but in her capacity as a clerk at the local post office. I remember her as a nice lady.

In her obituary it said she was a faithful member of the COJCOLDS, and that her marriage had been solemnized in the St. George Temple in 2000. The obituary also said her husband died in 1984.

This took me by surprise because while we were growing up in the church I never saw her attend a meeting and never knew her to be a member, and also because I am apparently clueless that living widows can be temple-married to their long deceased husbands.

What do you temple-savvy folks have to say about this?

Yes women can do that.