From today’s Seattle Times
When Michael Van Leuven met Roberta Mosher the summer before their freshman year of high school, it was her eyes that he first noticed. They were a vivid blue and hinted at her willful streak.
During their nearly 24-year marriage, a look from Roberta — Robin, as he called her — let Michael know when he was in the doghouse and when to come hither.
When she died suddenly of a brain aneurysm last Saturday, Roberta’s eyes took on a new meaning for Michael — the chance to see out of his right eye again.
Yesterday, a day after his wife’s funeral, Michael Van Leuven received a cornea transplant with tissue donated from her eye.
“She said, ‘You will see again, I guarantee it,’ I just never dreamt in a million years it would be through her eye,” Van Leuven said before being put under anesthesia for the operation at the University of Washington Medical Center.
