About the Authors
Corrine Jacobson:
Corrine lived in Fort Worth, Texas from the age of ten. She attended Texas Tech University, leaving to marry at an early age. Thirteen years later, when she found herself divorced with two young sons to provide for, she joined an industrial safety-equipment business. Although management in this field was unknown for women at that time, she became the president of a major distributorship, supervising three warehouses with thirty employees, calling on firms, and building a business with annual sales over $7 million. During this time, her second marriage brought her 22 years of happiness as she helped her spouse rear his three children in addition to her own. This phase of her life ended suddenly when she was widowed only a few years after her retirement. As someone who always sought solutions to the problems she faced, she looked for books on the realities and responsibilities of widowhood. She was only able to find books of quotations and books on grieving. Because she is a positive thinker, this book was written to help other widows find a new path in their lives.
Rose Rubin:
Corrine is my friend, and I grieved with her when her beloved spouse died. I also realized that she was using her management and organization skills of a retired executive, as well as her inner strength and special people savvy, in handling the difficulties of being widowed. So, knowing how much she has helped others all her life, I urged her to write notes about what she had to do when she was widowed and how she went about it. The objective was to provide a useful record so others could benefit from her experiences and abilities, and our book emerged from her good records.
Rose M. Rubin, Ph.D., is Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Fogelman College of Business and Economics, at the University of Memphis, Memphis, TN. She received her B.A. from Wellesley College, M.A. from Emory University, and Ph.D. from Kansas State University, all in economics. She has co-authored two books about American households, Working Wives and Dual-Earner Families (1994) and Expenditures of Older Americans (1997). She has also authored dozens of scholarly research papers on health and aging in refereed academic journals, such as: the Journals of Gerontology, The Gerontologist, Medical Care, Social Science Quarterly, Monthly Labor Review, the Journal of Applied Gerontology, the Journal of Family and Economic Issues, and numerous other economics and social science journals.
