     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION: ON JULY 30, 1996 THE DECEDENT RETURNED HOME AND APPEARED TO BE OUT OF BREATH.  A FAMILY MEMBER RUBBED HIS CHEST AND BACK AND LEFT HIM IN THE BEDROOM.  WHEN SHE RETURNED SHE FOUND DECEASED BENT OVER ON HIS KNEES.  SHE FLED THE HOME YELLING AND SCREAMING FOR HELP.  A NEIGHBOR CALLED POLICE AND FIRE RESCUE.  
     UPON THEIR ARRIVAL THERE WAS NO SIGN OF FOUL PLAY OR TRAUMA AND HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD.
     ACCORDING TO THE SON THE DECEASED WENT TO PICK UP HIS GRANDSON FROM SCHOOL AND GOT LOST WALKING HOME.  WHEN HE CAME HOME HE HAD SHORTNESS OF BREATH, SWEATING AND SHAKING.  HIS WIFE GAVE HIM A GLASS OF WATER AND PATTED HIM ON HIS BACK.  HE SUDDENLY SLUMPED FORWARD.  HIS WIFE IS CRIPPLED AND SHE COULD NOT LIFT HIM UP.
     THE DECEASED WAS A HEAVY DRINKER, ABOUT 14 TO 15 BEERS A DAY, BUT WOULD NOT DRINK FOR TWO OR THREE DAYS THEN WOULD START AGAIN.  HE QUIT SMOKING ABOUT FIVE YEARS AGO.  HE HAD HERNIA SURGERY ABOUT TWO OR THREE YEARS AGO AT PAN AMERICAN HOSPITAL AND WAS STABBED IN THE CHEST WITH A KNIFE AT THE AGE OF 17.  HE HAD NO OTHER MEDICAL HISTORY, WAS NOT UNDER A DOCTOR'S CARE AND HAD NO MEDICATIONS.
     *THE FAMILY ADVISED THEY HAD NO FINANCIAL MEANS TO ASSUME FUNERAL RESPONSIBILITIES.*


                                            ***    REFILED ON AUGUST 27,1996  --  IP   ***