AKRON, Ohio — Addie Polk’s solitude was shattered six months ago, when she shot herself in the chest as she was about to be evicted from her foreclosed home in Akron.
“She was a very private person,” said Mary Dennis, Polk’s only living sibling. “She would not have wanted people looking into her life.”
Polk, however, became the national face for victims of predatory lenders. In response to public outcry, the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) announced it would dismiss its foreclosure action against Polk, forgive her mortgage and allow her to return to her home, where she had lived since 1970. The latter never happened.
Polk, 91, died at 3:20 a.m. Monday at the Arbors at Fairlawn. She had gone to the nursing facility after her release from Akron General Medical Center.
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May the gods of our own understanding, bless Addie, and help us all.
This is just the beginning – Mortgage Loan Terrorism will kill more people than the 9 /11 terrorist attacks, through lack of proper shelter, starvation and suicides !
This is just the beginning of hell of earth for many homeowner / Home mortgage borrowing people – The Regualtory Regimes and their Mortgage Loan Terrorism will cause / INFLICT more deaths upon innocent Americans, through lack of safe and proper shelter, starvation and Suicides, than the 9 / 11 Terrorist Attacks !