Marie Roberts, widow of the Georgetown man who killed five young Amish girls in a Nickel Mines schoolhouse last October, plans to remarry.

Roberts, 29, has three young children. Her fiance, an insurance salesman, is divorced and has two children. They plan to marry in the fall, the New York Post has reported.

Amish and other sources in Bart Township have also said that Marie Roberts had moved from her Georgetown home to another Lancaster County location and planned to remarry.

The couple met shortly after the schoolhouse shootings. He came to her home to drop off blankets that the women in his office made for her children, the Post reported.

"They wondered about the children here ... and he was elected to bring down the blankets," Lloyd Welk, Marie Roberts' grandfather, told the Post.

The New Era telephoned Welk's home this morning, but a spokesman declined to summon Welk. Other members of the family did not respond to requests for information.

Marie Roberts' husband, 32-year-old Charles Carl Roberts IV, shot 10 girls, killing five and seriously injuring the others, on Oct. 2. The couple had married in 1996.

She has been supported by the community, including the Amish community, which immediately forgave her. A relief fund has helped her financially since the incident.

Roberts and her fiance, according to the report, were attracted immediately. "He met Marie and the children and they went in the yard and played and got along," Welk told the Post.

She and her fiance are planning an October wedding, the Post reported.

"That will be a year from when Charles went bad," Welk said. blog comments powered by Disqus