LETTER: Where do you turn?

This is to let widows know what happens to you when your husband — who served his country being a Navy SEAL in Vietnam — suddenly drops dead.

Here you have to sell your home because you are disabled yourself and cannot make a mortgage payment because you cannot make a payment and pay your utilities to stay alive. You put your home on the market to sell. You have showings, pack your stuff to move, have yard sales, try to stay on top of things.

You go to a service agency that says they will help, do what they need done, and then all of a sudden they cannot help you because of no fault of your own, so you lose the house you picked out and you are back to square one again. You have good credit and still no one wants to help. Cannot move anywhere because you have animals. These animals help you with your disabilities. The mortgage lender doesn’t want to help either. The real-estate people don’t know what to do.

I know there are more people like me out here. I am writing this for all of us. What am I to do? Put my stuff into storage and live in the storage also. Winter is soon upon us. Is this the community that people look the other way and not help each other? This is sad. —Patricia Hrusxa, Kalispell