It is said that he never recovered from Elizabeth's death.

John Fairfax never fully recovered from his son's death, but the work of the newspaper went on.

"I've been told that the general's wife has never recovered from her daughter's death," the doctor says softly.

Only now, it seemed, was she truly recovering from Nick's death.

I'm not certain that I've ever recovered from her death.

He turns out to be the father of the household, which never recovers from his death.

I don't think she has ever quite recovered from his death.

During this time, her father, who had never recovered from Gilbert's death, died.

He "adored his mother and never recovered from her early death."

It is said that he never fully recovered from Quentin's death.