Another Death in the Family-My stepbrother's wife

So the first day of 2006 brings a very sad bit of news.
A very shocking way to start the new year.....

.....It seems my "step sister-in-law" Marcie, who was married to my step brother Brad (who I didn't know very well I am sorry to say) ,died on New Years Day due to "Carbon Minoxide Poisoning" after having fallen asleep in a running vehicle. I talked to my dad on the phone briefly earlier monday afternoon and he had told me he and my stepmother had been in Whitewater with Brad as of sunday afternoon.

When I got home a few hours ago, I turned on the tv and channel 12 news just happened to be running the late edition of the local news and the minute I turned the tv on they were running the story along with a "news-video interview" of my stepbrother talking about the accident and the loss of his wife.


How strange to see one's family members on tv. It was just too spooky. The news story on tv 12 also had photos of Marci throughout her life.

I don't know why exactly the local media decided to push her death into the headlines other than for the fact that it might have seemed out of the ordinary and the authorities werent exactlty sure as to what happened (as this headline from Channel twelve online notes "Apparent" in the header of the news clip......
http://www.themilwaukeechannel.com/news/5796772/detail.html

..... or maybe because it happened on New Years Day....but in any case my thoughts are with my stepbrother and the rest of the family.

I do wish I could have gotten the chance to know Marcie a bit better. But she is now in heaven and I am sure my mother and others that I have lost are comforting her in heaven......

One of the News stories below , telling of the accident ,was taken from the "Milwaukee Journal Online Edition:
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Car's defective exhaust system kills woman

Lake Mills
- A faulty exhaust system leaked carbon monoxide inside a car, killing a woman and injuring a man.
The two were found about 10:15 a.m. Sunday, according to a Lake Mills Police Department news release.

Marcie J. Hufford, 37, of Whitewater was pronounced dead at Fort Atkinson Hospital, police said.

Matthew Wheeler, 26, of Lake Mills was in serious condition at St. Luke's Medical Center in Milwaukee on Monday.

The two had gone to the vehicle together and left it running, police said. They appeared to have suffered from acute carbon monoxide poisoning.
The vehicle's owner told police it had a defective exhaust system, police said.
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