Death claims 97-year-old Burlingame woman fighting eviction [View all]

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http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Death-claims-97-year-old-Burlingame-woman-6869612.php

Marie Hatch, the 97-year-old Burlingame woman whose fight against being evicted from her home of 66 years drew international attention, died Thursday evening.

Ms. Hatch apparently died of natural causes after suffering from a severe cold for more than a week, family friends said. She had been hospitalized and Thursday evening returned home, where she succumbed....

Joe Cotchett, the powerhouse lawyer who — after The Chronicle broke the story last month — took up Ms. Hatch’s fight with a lawsuit, said her case was “the tip of the iceberg as to how senior citizens are being treated in the Bay Area in terms of being put out on the sidewalk.”

His law partner, Nancy Nishimura, was at the Hatch home comforting her relatives and her longtime roommate, 85-year-old Georgia Rothrock. “There is no doubt that her being served with a notice that she had to be out on the sidewalk brought about her death,” she said.

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