bereaved
adjective
(of a person) greatly saddened at being deprived by death of a loved one.
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His mind had turned often to the trivial scenes, the happier times, when, unbereaved of hope, he had hunted with the Frenchman on the banks of the beautiful Sewanee River.
From The Story of Old Fort Loudon by Mary Noailles Murfree