Hi kissy06. I'm so sorry for you loss (and the families loss). I cried when my first peeps passed too.
I always let the surviving spouse continue on. I had this one mom who loved the swimming pool and would just swim and swim and swim. There was another who had thing for the treadmill and ran really fast on it! LOL!
Remember that one of the trophies is to have a person reach the age of 65.
You'll need that for each of your games. So far 4 of my games have it. I don't think my 5th game is going to get it with the current family because I've noticed that they've slowed down quite a bit and they're only 56 and 58 years old. Must have been those triplets they had when mom was 50! LOL!