It's a story that first warms the heart and then freeze-dries it. Betty Jean Deyo and Joel Ridley were childhood friends, but they lost touch for decades. At their 60th high school reunion in California, they rediscovered one another and two years later in early December 2006, they were married in Las Vegas. Their happiness came to an abrupt end on the drive home from visiting a friend who was helping the newlyweds plan their honeymoon. A vehicle being driven by Ridley, 81, slammed into a power pole that was dangling from a crane in Upland, CA. He died at the scene […]