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Texas widower who fought to be listed on late husband’s death certificate has died
John Stone-Hoskins spent the last few months of his life fighting – successfully – for his rights.
The Texas man, aware that he did not have long to live, got the state of Texas in August to amend his late husband’s death certificate to reflect that they were married.
Stone-Hoskins’ husband James had committed suicide in January and on Saturday (10 October) he himself died.
‘Whatever the doctors say, I will always believe he died of a broken heart,’ Stone-Hoskins’ attorney Neel Lane wrote in a Facebook post.
‘In his last days, he told me how happy he was that he helped secure relief to thousands of Texas residents who sought amended death certificates and birth certificates that recognized their marriages.
It was on 6 August that Stone-Hoskins received an amended death certificate on which he was listed as ‘husband’ instead of ‘significant other.’
He had said in court Thursday: ‘I have a terminal liver disease, melanoma, basal cell carcinoma, breast disease, a heart defect, in addition to a defective aorta, which was not discovered until recently. My doctors expect me to live another 45 to 60 days.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton had faced possible contempt charges for refusing to recognize a same-sex marriage after the Supreme Court’s 26 June ruling that made same-sex marriage in all 50 US states.
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