No children, wife died several years ago.
In one of the other articles posted about this on FR tonight, it said that he had money clipped to the electric bill - guess they never told him when they put the limiter on his meter or the employee "wasn't authorized" to accept payment.
this story breaks my heart 93yo man, means he was possibly a WW2 vet, and most certainly a Depression survivor. Seven years short of a century old, this 93yo man, trying to still live independently, bless his heart, was murdered by an electric company who had the audacity to put a limiter on his electric in the middle of a winter like this. If they put a limiter on his power-source, then the technician had to know this was an elderly man and should have reported it - even the customer service person would have known that in the course of any conversation with the man and should have reported it. A 93yo man with money clipped to his bill, unable to get out of the house in 32below weather to pay the dam bill and nobody NOBODY came to help this poor man. Where was the failsafe? Where was the most basic element of compassion here? Where were the community groups that should have been checking on their elderly? And why should a 93yo even have to pay for electricity at all? My heart cries for our elderly. What have we become?