sentences:  The last two years of de Ovies's life were years of considerable sadness and loss.In 1960 he discontinued his weekly column in the Atlanta Herald and on 22 February 1961 he suffered the loss of his daughter-in-law and great-granddaughter when his son's car was struck by a freight train near Calera, Alabama.A little more than seven months later his wife Elizabeth de Ovies would die on 2 October 1961 at age 80.