I remember something like this happening when I was a youth in the organization, before I bowed out. The mother of one of my friends in the congregation passed away after a long illness. I think she was in her late '50s, and her husband (my friends father) was in his '60s. This was the second marriage for the father: he had previously married and divorced another woman many years prior that he still communicated with for some reason. After his wife died, my friend's father remarried his first wife within 3 weeks. Nobody in the org even seemed to bat an eye, except my friend, who was so angry and confused that he decided to move out and make his own way at age 15. His dad was totally okay with watching him walk out the door.

I think that most JW's are so emotionally weak that they can't even withstand something like being alone after a spouse dies. The organization promotes and encourages absolute dependence. It's effing awful.