My mother passed away two days before Christmas in 1989 .She was always a stickler for paying her bills.Being a private woman,not many of us children knew what was what.Then the collectors started coming.Some were dumb enough to think they could just start taking things!Not a good move!It was during the winter[Christmas],where they put your body on chill till the ground thawed.We hired a lawyer,who arranged to meet with the family to 'chop up the assets',so to speak.When the collectors showed up,the meeting place was a storage room for the bodies[o degrees]and the lawyer asked the bill collectors what is what questions they wanted my Mother to answer.They were all in shock,as they thought,they would be doing lunch,and so on.Needless to say,the bill collectors quit calling.
While I'm sorry about the passing of your mother, that story is pricelss!!!!!