See also Welfare

A woman whose husband has died and who has not remarried.

The fatherless and the widow shall come and shall eat, Deut. 14: 29. This poor widow has cast all that she had, Mark 12: 41-44. Visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, James 1: 27. The Lord will be a swift witness against those that oppress the widow, 3 Ne. 24: 5 (Zech. 7: 10). Widows and orphans shall be provided for, D&C 83: 6 (D&C 136: 8).