Bob and Helena

  "I wanted to be married to her forever and for her to be a married woman when she died," said Bob d'Ambrosio of Deerfield Beach, FL on Wednesday, Feb. 14 while holding a picture of his wife Helena who passed away a week after the couple married on Jan. 18, 2007 at the hospital where she was admitted for terminal cancer. Having known each other for 25 years and dating for 12 years, they had planned to elope in Las Vegas before she got sick. He proposed again at the hospital where the two were wedd in the company of family, friends and hospital staff. "She is a special lady," he said remembering her on Valelntine's Day.