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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUtah woman's same-sex partner of 50 years died. Then a judge declared them legally married.
Bonnie Foerster knew within minutes of meeting Beverly Grossaint at a friends party in New York City in 1968 that they were meant to be together.
Foerster, then 24 and working for a poultry company, was married to an abusive husband who had blackened both her eyes and broken several of her ribs. She was wearing dark sunglasses to hide her bruises, when Grossaint, 31, took off my glasses, looked at me with those deep blue eyes and told me that she could see my soul, Foerster said in an interview with The Washington Post. Just like that, we fell in love.
Fifty years after that chance encounter, Foerster, now 74 and living in Salt Lake City, is mourning the loss of her partner, who died in May of pneumonia at age 82. The pair never married because they were suffering from various health problems in 2015, when same-sex marriage became legal nationwide.
Now, three months after Grossaints death, the couple has been declared legally married by a Utah court in an unusual case of a posthumous marriage union.
Im numb with happiness to finally be a married woman, Foerster said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2018/08/28/utah-womans-same-sex-partner-of-50-years-died-then-a-judge-declared-them-legally-married/?utm_term=.299743d02395&tid=sm_tw&__twitter_impression=true
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Utah woman's same-sex partner of 50 years died. Then a judge declared them legally married. (Original Post)
demmiblue
Aug 2018
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Fla Dem
(23,785 posts)1. A very touching and beautiful story. nt
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)2. good idea
bucolic_frolic
(43,364 posts)3. posthumous marriage will really shake up estate planners
LittleGirl
(8,292 posts)4. a beautiful story. thanks for sharing. eom
mythology
(9,527 posts)5. The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice
Congrats to her and well deserved.
Initech
(100,108 posts)6. Hate may be rearing its' ugly head now...
But in the end love and justice will *ALWAYS* prevail over hate and bigotry. Congrats to her as well.
chowder66
(9,087 posts)7. I wish my great aunts could have had something like this.
They are both long gone and had to hide their love.
I listed them in our family tree as married as it really was the only thing I could think to do. I told my family I did this and no one complained which is good. Most are pretty liberal minded, even the ex-republicans in my family.