What is the marital status of a deceased person?

Turbo tax software in their note say the deceased person retains the same status they had before their death which in many cases is "married", not widow or widower. Wow , all kinds of different info here.

You are correct the marital status of a deceased person stays what it was at the time of death. 

Married

My mother in law passed away snd her staus on death certificate stll say married