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kag

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Sun May 18, 2014, 11:21 AM May 2014

Boulder's homeless mourn a friend, the latest in series of sad losses [View all]

Source: Boulder Daily Camera

Four people went to sleep under the eaves of a building at Scott Carpenter Park during the spring snowstorm that struck Boulder on the night before Mother's Day. Only three woke up.

The woman discovered by her friends to have died while they slept was identified two days later as Kathryn J. Fishman, 59.

Apparently homeless for a significant period of time, she had been a frequent visitor in recent weeks to the Scott Carpenter Park area, and was well known for pushing around not one shopping cart but two.

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According to the Boulder County Coroner's Office, she left behind a daughter, who lives in the state. The cause and manner of Fishman's death has not yet been determined, nor have those of the previous three transients to die.

Read more: http://www.dailycamera.com/news/boulder/ci_25784499

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