Last night Deb came home and she said she heard a knock on the big garage door which was strange, she was hesitant to open it until she knew it was the neighbor who lives behind us to the side, and he was very upset and said "I have some bad news, Lisa killed herself last night". Lisa and Jerry live next door to them, just down the alley, and we would see them, not often, but we knew them for the 30 years that we lived here, and she was always smiling and okay; she smoked like a chimney, was a cancer survivor yet still smoked, had her stomach stapled a few years ago although she didn't look big to me, just got a clean bill of health from her doctor, but apparently she was laying on the bed with her dog, Jerry asked her if she wanted anything, she said no, he walked out, sat down to do something and heard a gunshot, the dog came racing out of the room, he went in and she had shot herself with her own gun. He raced over to the neighbors, they came over but she was dead, too late for 911 to do anything. The neighbor who told Deb this said just the day before she called his wife and asked if she wanted a perm, she was a hairdresser and worked out of her house, and when they asked Bev how was she she said she was fine, nothing wrong. They asked Jerry if she ever showed signs of issues, he said at times she would get into a mood and could sleep for 20 hours straight, but would snap right out of it. He said he talked to her about getting help but she didn't want to go, didn't think that she needed any, but now it's too late. Our hearts break for him, he is a 72 year old Vietnam vet with PTSD, she was younger only 59, but this just has us all baffled and in shock, just awful, so so sad.....what would trigger her to do something like this we'll probably never know.....
