Village Tragedy and a sad weekend!

So, to follow my last post.... after a great evening with Josh's family I get up Thurs morning for work and I wait, and wait, and wait... and no bus shows up. So finally (since our principal is out of town) I call our acting principal's telephone number (my good friend Lutfiya whom I share a class with).
A male answers the phone and tells me that Lutfiya is at the hospital. Well, she does have a 6 month old daughter and Jordanian's got to the hospital for everything so I don't think much about it. I call my other co-worker to then see if there is going to be school that day and she tells me that, the night before, Lutfiya's husband was killed in a car accident.
Imagine my complete and total shock! This is a good friend whose husband was one of the few males in town I actually knew. So, I spent most of the weekend at a funeral (they last three days) with the one respite in between being going to Tayybeh (the next village over) to have thanksgiving dinner with Andi (the new volunteer there).
Kind of bittersweet. Lutfiya is absolutely devastated and rightly so. It would be devastating for anyone to be widowed at a young age (he was 28 and she is 26) but, in Jordanian culture, even more so. When a woman's whole life is centered around a husband, the sudden removal of that husband leaves the woman lost. Now, lutfiya of course has support... jordanian culture is so communal... but she will not be able to stay in her own home (women don't live alone here) so she and her daughter will have to move in either with her parents or his parents. Then, comes the fact, that there is a good chance (over 90%) that she will never remarry. She will essentially be left to live out her life with her family supporting her and her daughter but never really being as independant (having her own home, etc) as she would like. It is just a tragedy! So, I am not sure what will happen at my center as she is my co-teacher who I have been training and I know at least she will not be back for a while (there is a period of 40 days of mourning). Please keep her and her family in your prayers.