Please pray for blankets, shelter, jackets, food, hot
beverages and warmth for our homeless family this winter . . .
In her final hours, as Karen Lee Batts tried to sleep in the
freezing cold of a Portland, Oregon parking garage and hypothermia took over
her body, Karen became confused. She began to remove clothes. An attendant
later found her on the garage floor. “She died from hypothermia due to the
severe cold weather,” said the officiant at her funeral Wednesday, reading from
a newspaper obituary. “She suffered from schizophrenia, a mental illness.”
Several dozen people filed past her open casket at the Ross Hollywood Chapel to
pay their respects, 11 days after her death. Batts was the third to die here in
an extreme cold spell that has killed four homeless people this month.
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