     ACCORDING TO INFORMATION RECEIVED: THE DECEASED WAS A RESIDENT OF THE EPWORTH VILLAGE RETIREMENT COMMUNITY.  ON JULY 27, 1996 SHE WENT TO THE COMMUNITY HALL TO PLAY BINGO.  SHE TOOK TWO CARDS, SAT DOWN AND SAID, "OH, MY BACK HURTS", GASPED FOR AIR AND COLLAPSED.
     FIRE RESCUE RESPONDED AND TRANSPORTED DECEASED TO PALM SPRINGS GENERAL HOSPITAL.  SHE ARRIVED IN THE E/R IN FULL CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST, PULSELESS AND WAS AYSTOLIC ACCORDING TO MONITOR.  DESPITE RESUSCITATIVE EFFORTS SHE REMAINED UNRESPONSIVE AND WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT 3:02 PM.
     SHE HAD A PAST MEDICAL HISTORY OF ARTERIOSCLEROTIC HEART DISEASE, OLD MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION, POSSIBLE INCIPIENT CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE.  AN EKG OF 1994 REVELAED AN OLD ANTERIOR AND INFERIOR INFARCTION.  TREATED BY DR. M. HARRIS (266-7300).