After 60 Years of Marriage, My Wife Died — Then Her Lawyer Said, “You Were Never Married”
Three days after Irene’s funeral, an old lawyer named Mr. Geller came to my door with an envelope. “Irene asked me to give you this after she died.” Then he said something that shattered everything I thought I knew: “Robert, you and Irene were never legally married.” I was 86. Irene and I had spent…