Ltr to Judge Quillen 4.20.09

Honorable Ford Quillen

c/o Scott County Clerk of Courts

104 E. Jackson St.

Suite 2

Gate City, Virginia

24251

Date: April 20, 2009

To: Judge Ford Quillen

From: Larry Wayne King

Subject: Judicial Irregularities

              Guardianship Hearing of Clarence and Athelene King, Lee County, Virginia

I am no longer represented by the Sturgill & Kennedy Law Offices.

This is an attempt to ensure my representatives from the Sturgill & Kennedy Law Offices, during the time they represented my sister, Barbara Lochner, and myself, presented critical pieces of information to you regarding potential perjury charges against Tammy Williams and Elizabeth King-Jones during those behind the scene chamber meetings. The Tammy Williams perjury incident occurred in Judge Tammy S. McElyea's court.

In attempting to obtain guardianship of our mother, Athelene King, in May, 2007, Elizabeth King-Jones enlisted Tammy Williams to be guardian of Athelene King because Elizabeth King-Jones lived out-of-state. It was determined that the oldest sibling, Barbara Lochner, who was living in California, was moving to Lee County by July 1. Judge McElyea, during the interim six weeks, made Mrs. Williams co-guardian. During the hearing to have Barbara Lochner made Athelene King's guardian, Mrs. Williams stated, under oath, that she visited Mrs. King's house every other day for six weeks and during the off days, she called. Judge McElyea, based on Mrs. Williams testimony, had her continue as co-guardianship with Barbara Lochner. There were five witnesses who knew that was a lie. One or more of the witness's was around Mrs. King 24-hours a day during the entire six weeks. Mrs. Williams visited one time during the six weeks and that was to cut Mrs. King's hair.

On two separate occasions, Judge McElyeas's court made last minute changes that prevented perjury testimony against Tammy Williams. The first was when all witnesses were seated outside the courtroom waiting to testify. The second was at Kinser's Law Offices with all the same witnesses waiting to be deposed. Neither time were they given the opportunity to testify. When we asked Jeff Sturgill, our attorney, what happened during the time the witness were outside the court room and the attorneys went into chambers, we were told Judge McElyea said, “Well, mistakes were made” and “all that is behind us now”. Judge McElyea, was a friend/acquaintance of Tammy Williams. Still, this behavior by Judge McElyeas ultimately cost the family 10's of $1,000 in attorney fees having Elizabeth placed as guardian of daddy in the same house as mother. The end result was that two weeks before mother passed away, Joe Rasnic, mother's ad litem, called and said that Dr. Scott Litton and he wanted mother out of the house, away from Elizabeth, or they would put her in a nursing home. The hazardous situation, while created by Elizabeth's behavior, was exacerbated byfact that the home health care company canceled their contract because they felt that Elizabeth posed a threat to the personal safety of their workers. Mother passed away in my house. My father continues to live in his house where Elizabeth has moved in. I have no knowledge of what she is doing with or to my father, but I do know that she has not taken him back to the neurologist -even though she was told to come back in 6 months- since August, 2007.

It wasn't your court, so once this is off the docket, I will file a complaint with the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission and let them sort it out.

The following excerpts (copies of the full summaries are enclosed) are taken from medical summaries, by date, from my father's visits to his neurologists dating back to October, 2005. Also, shown below are 2 pages of a deposition of Elizabeth King-Jones where she stated that our father doesn't have Alzheimer's disease, which is in direct contradiction to his neurologists diagnosis. Needless to say, we believe Elizabeth's intent was to try and show our father was mentally capable of changing his will.

The following is a chronological time line of Clarence King's diagnoses of Alzheimer's:

October 6, 2005 – Original visit to Neurologist Daniel Garber, prompted by me calling Dr Molony, daddy's primary physician and reporting his multiple day disorientation . Referenced in Dr Garber's summary of April 4, 2006. (taken for testing by myself)

February, 2006 – Unknown to me (living next door to my parents) Elizabeth drove mother and daddy to George Cridlin and had daddy give her his sole POA and joint POA with me for mother.

April 4, 2006 - Visit summary of Clarence King by Daniel Garber, MD, Associated Neurologists of Kingsport, (referencing his original visit of October 6, 2005): progressive symptoms of mild vascular dementia and dementia of Alzheimer's for two to four years.

Dr Garber states, “I think that he will obviously have this condition for the rest of his life and it will continue to get worse.”

August 4, 2006 – Dr. Garber mentioned that his daughter (Elizabeth) is with him. Overall assessment of general medical condition, again diagnosing daddy's condition of “Dementia with components of senile dementia of Alzheimer's type and vascular. Multiple different issues concerning his dementia has been discussed.”

-Insert by lwk for informational purposes only-

The following is a description of Alzheimer's disease and a list of vascular dementia symptoms from the Alzheimer's Association web site:

A. Alzheimer's disease is a progressive and fatal brain disease.  Alzheimer's destroys brain cells, causing problems with memory, thinking and behavior severe enough to affect work, lifelong hobbies or social life. Alzheimer’s gets worse over time, and it is fatal. Today it is the sixth-leading cause of death in the United States. 

B. Symptoms of vascular dementia:

• Memory problems may or may not be a prominent symptom, depending on whether brain regions important in memory are affected.
• Confusion, which may get worse at night.
• Difficulty concentrating, planning, communicating and following instructions.
• Reduced ability to carry out daily activities.
• Physical symptoms associated with strokes, such as sudden weakness, difficulty speaking or confusion.
• Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain may show characteristic abnormalities associated with vascular damage.

April, 2007 – Give or take 30 days, Elizabeth drove daddy to George Cridlin's office, stayed with him in the office and had daddy disinherit mother, Gail and myself and make her his sole heir.

May 28, 2007 – Kristie Nies, Ph.D, Clinical Psychologist, specializing in mental health, performed a neuropsych evaluation and she felt that daddy was “at increased accidental self injury and victimization secondary to cognitive dysfunction and recommended continuous provision and assistance.” (included in Dr. C.A. Pendola's summary of August 31, 2007)

August 31, 2007 – Visit summary by C. A. Pendola, M.D., Neurologist. Recapping Dr. Nies of May 28, 2007 confirming the report, that includes, “The daughter states that she is well aware of her recommendation. I once again review these with Mr. King and his daughter.”

Dr. Pendola's impressions include “Chronic dementia likely mixed with a combination of Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia disease”.

In #4, Dr. Pendola asked for daddy to come back in six months. Needless to say, Elizabeth never took daddy back.

I verbally verified with the offices of Neurologists of Kingsport and Dr. Nies's office that copies of all summaries were sent to Dr. Molony's office.

December 3, 2007 – Deposition of Elizabeth King-Jones taken on December 3, 2007 in Jonesville, Virginia at Montgomery Kinser law offices. Exerts of Pages 12 & 13:

Q Have you noticed any difference in your dad's condition in between those interval?

A Well I, Ive noticed he's more frail than he was.

Q Anything else?

A His blood pressure is worse. He's had, well he was having some chest pains and I took him to a cardiologist when I was here in November.

Q Anything else?

A I'm not sure.

Q Okay. As far as cognitive abilities have you noticed anything there?

A   Other than his memory, no, he does have a poor memory.

Q Have you talked to his doctors about it?

A Yes, I have.

Q Do you understand what his diagnosis is?

A Yes, I do.

Q What do you understand it to be?

A Well, I was told by the girl that did his neuropsychiatric test two years ago, she told us that he had some dementia but she reversed that diagnosis because he actually, he had another

neuropsychiatric test in May and his condition has improved. He has improved and with dementia you don't improve.

I was also told that he does not have Alzheimer's. Now he has some symptoms of each one of those things but she said this last time that what he seemed to have was bilateral brain dysfunction which basically affects the memory.

Q And who ------

A So he does have a poor memory.

Q Who is the she, who told you this?

A Christy Nies.

Q From?

A From Kingsport.

Q You understand her to be in a neurology office?

A Yes.

Since the above responses, under oath, seems to far exceed the judicial standard of “preponderance of evidence”, I would like for you to consider perjury charges against Elizabeth King-Jones.

I began this entire process May 14, 2007, with my visit to the Lee County Health and Human Services when Barbara and I were worried that Elizabeth was abusing our father. I was advised by Pamela Farr to file for guardianship, which we did. Because of the ensuing perjury

which the evidence here sets forth, my father has remained in this perilously situation and we have been helpless to remedy it. Perhaps if this issue were properly addressed our father's care would not be compromised.

Tammy Williams

Tammy Williams - Married to our 2nd cousin, daughter-in-law to Gary and Joyce Williams. Tammy worked in the Business Development Office in the Lee County Courthouse, prior beautician and  appears to have a friendly relationship with attorneys and judges in the courthouse, both for working at the courthouse and “doing hair”. . Elizabeth King-Jones -because she lived out-of-state- had Tammy Williams to co-guardianship our Father, Clarence King and, for a temporary period of time, for Mother. Five people were willing to testify that Tammy Williams committed perjury on her testimony, a story that will be added later.  She was daddy’s co-guardian when Elizabeth King-Jones emptied out mother and daddy’s savings, leaving mother penniless.

May 7, 2010

Martin P. Votel, Prosecuting Attorney

101 E. Main St.

Courthouse, First Floor

Eaton, OH 45320

Dear Mr. Votel,

My sister, Barbara Lochner and I are asking for assistance in determining that our father is not being physically or financially abused by Elizabeth King-Jones, our sister who has our father's POA. They are both residing in Preble County, Ohio, she at 8213 US Route 35E, West Alexandria, Ohio 45381 and we are unsure of his physical location within the county.

Our parents are/was Clarence and Athelene King (decreased January 20, 2009). Our father has vascular dementia and Alzheimer's, mother eventually died of a stroke brought on by her primary symptoms of Cortical Basal Ganglionic Degeneration (CBGD).

Elizabeth King-Jones has a history of aggressive behavior and abuse against our parents. The abuse is a combination of physical, mental and financial. This is meant as an overview of EKJ's behavior regarding our parents, culminating in mother's ad litem, based on her doctor's recommendation, contacting me to remove mother from the house she was sharing with our father and EKJ (next door) because of EKJ's threating behavior. To support this, the following is a chronological order of events including non-family third parties that can collaborate the below.

1. October, 2005 our father, Clarence King was determined to have vascular dementia. Appendix A for Dr. Summaries.

2. February, 2006 Elizabeth King-Jones drove from West Alexandria, OH, to Pennington Gap, VA and without my knowledge while living next door, took our parents to have a sole POA for our father and a co-POA with me for our mother. Appendix B is a copy of my POA for our now deceased mother (January 20, 2009).

3. May, 2007 I visited the Lee County Health and Human Services Dept in Jonesville, VA and spoke with Pamela Farr regarding my suspicion that our sister, Elizabeth King-Jones was manipulating our father. Ms. Farr responded that the only way we could control this was to gain guardianship of our father.

4. We went to court in May, 2007, when EKJ filed for guardianship and conservatorship of our mother. During that court hearing (where Elizabeth King-Jones-a resident of Ohio at the time and herself ineligible to be appointed) used a cousin as the co-guardian. Under questioning from our attorney, Elizabeth King-Jones told the court that she had our father change his will within the last 30 days to make her the sole heir, disinheriting his wife of 65+yrs and the two other children, Barbara and myself. Tammy Williams (the cousin) was appointed guardian until we could bring it back to the court a few weeks later when Barbara moved nearby from California and was made conservator and co-guardian of our mother. Appendix C and C.1 is a copy of EKJ's deposition taken in December, 2007 regarding changing the will and his mental health.

5. September, 2007: Elizabeth King-Jones, for the next 5 months, collected a total of $14,000. from our father's long-term health insurance company-money paid to provide daily health care for him-which she kept.  Therefore, Barbara and I had to pay the workers -part out of our mother's checking account and part out of our personal bank accounts -current investigation by your office.

6. October, 2007: With the only car in mother's name, Barbara was able stop our father from driving because of his deteriorating condition. Elizabeth King-Jones, within 2 weeks, purchased a van with our father's money, brought it down from Ohio, and within 24 hours after being given the van he drove it through the back of the garage, a room on the back of the house, and the outside deck. He came within a foot of running over a caregiver and with inches of a tree. The neighbor who heard the commotion ran over and pulled him out of the moving van as it was going in circles in a pasture (his foot was frozen to the gas pedal). Appendix D is a picture of the aftermath.

7. October, 2007: Elizabeth King-Jones, Tammy Williams and Clarence King removed $66,000 of mother's money that was co-owned by our father, but under court oversight and opened new accounts without mother's name, thereby stripping mother of all financial assets. It took a judge's demand to her attorney to have it returned 2 months later. Appendix E email of attorney correspondence.

8. November, 2007: Elizabeth King-Jones with a duplicate set of car keys, left the parents house at 12:00AM and went next door to our property where my mother's car was being kept. She rolled the car into the middle of the road to attempt to make mother's sister(whom she would not allow to enter the house to visit my mother) think she did it accidentally. Our father admitted this to Angela Petry (276-, Pennington Gap, VA, the caregiver, and the neighbor, Misti McCowan, (276  Pennington Gap, VA 24277, that saw EKJ leave the house. There were two teenage drivers on the downside of the car position in the road who could have hit the car in the dark (no street lights, crest of a hill, high speed area). Appendix F, is a picture of the car in the road.

(see car picture on post date of 09.09.09)

9. December, 2007: Elizabeth King-Jones, without guardian's approval, removed mother from the house on a 3-hour car ride, in the winter, knowing that her diagnosis and condition was so fragile that it would be very dangerous. It was just one of a list of EKJ efforts to harm our mother. EKJ left town the next day prior to mother going to the hospital. Appendix G is Barbara's email to our attorney.

10. May, 2008 Elizabeth King-Jones, as father's POA, sent Barbara and me an email saying that father had extremely high blood pressure and congestive heart failure and could not be put under any stress, therefore, mother's 83 year old sister, and a retired RN, could not come on the property because it upset my father. Said if my aunt came on the property that she would call the sheriff. See attached. In December, 2008, 7 months after receiving the aforementioned email, EKJ took our father, on a walker, and between the two of them threw 400 bricks, which had been there 5 years, approximately 10 feet into my rear driveway because EKJ said it was on "her" property.The property is joint owned by Barbara, EKJ and myself Dad has a life estate. Within several days my father was in the Intensive Care Uniy of Lee Regional Hospital.

(see the picture on 09/09/09 post)

My aunt did go over to see her sister. My father, well into Alzheimers now and egged on by EKJ's constant programming, grabbed my aunt and threw her to the floor in front of our mother. EKJ had the sheriff come and throw her off the property. The picture of the assault was taken at the sheriff's office. (see picture Appendix H and I)

11. December, 2008 - Independent Home Healthcare, Main St., Jonesville, VA, 276-346-4420 cancelled their contract because the health aides assigned to help mother refused to go the the house because they were afraid for their safety due to EKJ's threating behavior.

12. January, 2009 - I received a call from Joe Rasnic, Main St., Jonesville, VA, 276-346-4288, mother's court-appointed ad litem, saying he had talked to Dr. Scott Litton (mother's doctor) and they wanted mother removed immediately from the house because of ekj's threating behavior or they were going to place her in a nursing home. I moved mother and caregivers to our house next door. My mother passed away there 3 weeks later.

June, 2009 - EKJ moved our father to Ohio. We found where he was in a nursing home and checked on him by phone regularly until he was moved. A worker on the phone commented that they didn't think he had any relatives as no one comes to see him. Now, we do not know where he is or what is happening. Based on EKJ's past behavior, we fear for his safety and the misuse of any remaining funds to provide for his continued care (she is sole heir).

In elizabeth's continued effort to get Mother's guardianship, this time C. Adam Kinser, elizabeth, Tammy Williams and Joyce Williams show up in court to confirm that Mother and Daddy, both with progressive diseases have deterioration over the last year and half, AND it was caused by our lack of care with Mother. This is the same place Dr. Scott Litton, Mother's doctor, said, "if I ever get sick, I'm coming here".

Judge Quillen sent Tammy and Joyce Williams out of the room when it was quickly determined Mother wasn't neglected.That just extended Mother's life.

From:	barbara lochner <
To:	skwiselaw@hotmail.com

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Jeff,

Three extremely obese women from family svcs showed up at my apartment, approx 2:30 p.m. yesterday.  There had been no prev calls, anything.

Only one of them talked.  She only had two questions;  one re daddy hitting and knocking down Charlsie last year, and the other re my refusal to let Eliz take mother joy-riding to her death in that stupid van that dad wrecked.

They seemed shocked re other info I was only too happy to give them...my father leaving everything to Eliz in his new will, taking of the insurance money, etc. I told them that as far as I knew, the judge knew nothing about any of this as she refused to hear our case and decided the whole thing in the back room with our lawyers.  This is unbelievable to them. I told them I could give them copies of Eliz statements in her deposition - and I had these copies at the ready -  30 seconds away - but they didn't want to get that involved.

They said (judge) Tammi wanted their report Tuesday A.M.

No one has contacted Wayne re anything so he is back in Georgia.

Barbara Lochner, 

The Players

Tammy Williams - Married to our 2nd cousin, daughter-in-law to Gary and Joyce Williams. Tammy worked in the Business Development Office in the Lee County Courthouse, prior beautician and  appears to have a friendly relationship with attorneys and judges in the courthouse, both for working at the courthouse and “doing hair”. . Elizabeth King-Jones -because she lived out-of-state- had Tammy Williams to co-guardianship our Father, Clarence King and, for a temporary period of time, for Mother. Five people were willing to testify that Tammy Williams committed perjury on her testimony, a story that will be added later.  She was daddy’s co-guardian when Elizabeth King-Jones emptied out mother and daddy’s savings, leaving mother penniless.

Gary and Joyce Williams - Gary is the brother-in-law to Lee County Sheriff Gary Parsons and prior Chairman of the Lee County Republican Party.  Lee County is almost wholly Republican, making him a very powerful man.

Gary Parsons - Lee County Sheriff. Long working relationship with Judge Tammy McElyea as a prior county attorney, prosecuting attorney and Chief Justice of the 30th District  Circuit .  Also, brother-in-law to Gary Williams, husband of Joyce Williams who sided with Elizabeth.  Wonder if Elizabeth gave Joyce mother’s grandfather clock that she always wanted?

C. Adam Kinser. Elizabeth’s attorney and partner in Montgomery and Kinser Law Firm -prior firm of Cynthia Kinser, Chief Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court and mother of C. Adam Kinser.
Chief Justice Kinser is a past Lee County Prosecuting Attorney-as was Judge Tammy McElyea..

Greg Edwards - Our father’s ad litem. Mr. Edwards, during the period of time he was ad litem, was the client of Montgomery and Kinser for a DUI.  This is relevant because during an  “unexpected” event in court, he said that daddy told him a joke so he must be competent.  Thus C. Adam Kinser (Elizabeth’s attorney) won yet again and our father who had had dementia/Alzheimer’s for at least 6 years and had not been able to function well for several years-was declared competent.  Thus Elizabeth victoriously walked away with everything mother and daddy had left for the 3 of us to share.  More importantly, Elizabeth took daddy out of state and he disappeared from his family and friends until his death was reported in the Dayton Ohio paper a year and a half later.

Larry King:  Son of Clarence and Athelene King.  For a year, he and his wife lived in the basement of his mom and dad’s house at his father’s request because Athelene had started falling and Clarence, being a frail, slight man, could not pick her up or take care of her needs.  Larry and his wife built a house next to his mom and dad and continued taking care of their needs for 4+ years as they rapidly declined.  

Barbara Lochner:  Daughter of Clarence and Athelene King who quit her successful job in California and moved to Pennington Gap in 2007 to take over the care of her parents so that Larry and his wife could move to GA and resume working.

Elizabeth King-Jones:  The youngest daughter of Clarence and Athelene King who blamed Barbara (who left home early to avoid a physically abusive father) and Larry (who joined the Navy at 17) for abandoning her.  As she angrily said, “The two of you left me with that crazy man!”

The dog

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7jRBFyJ56I&feature=youtube_gdata




Daddy's sister died and he became the owner of her dog.  Her biggest
worry had been what would happen to her little black poodle when she
died, and only after Daddy promised to take care of it did she
peacefully slip away.

By this time mother was completely bed ridden except for the few hours
a day the care givers maneuvered her into her wheelchair and pushed
her to her recliner in the den where she could enjoy the sunshine.  It
was from that window that she witnessed Elizabeth dig up and burn her
beautiful rose garden.

Anyway, on the third day after Daddy brought the dog home, he showed
up at our door with it.  “I can't keep this dog,” he said.  “It
whines.  It messes in the house.  We have a cat and we don't want a
dog.  You have to take it.”

So just like that, he handed us the dog and disappeared.  By this
time, he was deep into dementia and did not process very well.  For
example, one day he would ask us to help him buy groceries for the
household, then the next he would go into screaming rants that we had
purchased food for the house.  “I'm the head of this household,” he
would bellow at the top of his lungs.  “I decide what to buy and when,
and I am perfectly capable of going to the grocery store!”  When
reminded that he had asked us to buy groceries, he denied that he had.
 His Alzheimerish behavior made him very difficult to deal with.

So we were stuck with this dog.  I called my sister Barbara Gail in
CA.  She was the world's greatest animal lover and had 3 dogs of her
own.  She immediately booked a flight to Tri-Cities Airport and rented
a car and drove to The Flats.  There she stayed for a week visiting
mother and daddy and driving the dog around in the car to acclimate
her to the airplane trip that lay ahead.

Fast forward to 2008



Elizabeth decided that mother needed a dog, so she brought this rescue
dog to mom and dad's.  Mother, whose disease was a slow paralyzing of
her muscles, was totally bed ridden by this time.  Even though her
mind was still in tip top shape, the illness was taking its toll on
her ability to communicate.  Two things interacted at that time to
change destiny.

The first had to do with the dog.  It was not house broken and had no
clue how to go outside for its “business.”  So here is this dog that
Elizabeth has brought into our parent's home where our mother is so
medically fragile that her life was being sustained by round-the-clock
oxygen and regimented breathing treatments.    Elizabeth stayed for a
week or so while the dog was there.  It wore diapers which she
changed.  Then, she left, and left this untrained dog in our parents'
home, telling the care givers that they were to change its diapers.
Daddy, even further into dementia by now, was incensed that a dog
should wear a diaper, so he took it off.  The dog was peeing and
pooping all over the carpets and floors.  The house smelled awful in
spite of constant cleaning.

Two days after Elizabeth left the first care giver arrived at our door
early one morning.  She was crying and, from the looks of it, had been
upset for a while.  She announced that she would not stay in the house
with the dog.  She made it clear that she loved mother and would do
anything for her, but she was not going to take her attention away
from mother to change a dog's diapers and clean up after it.  Such
diversion could have been disastrous for mother.  She said that
Elizabeth had told her that she had to do it, and that if she did not,
she could look for another job.  “Care givers are a dime a dozen,”
Elizabeth had told her.  I promised to take care of it.

I called Elizabeth and talked to her.  She listened, but would not
reply.  She just held the phone and listened, then hung up.  I waited,
thinking that surely her better sense would prevail and she would call
back.  She did not.

The next day both care givers (the weekly one and the week-end one)
came to see me.  They both said they would quit if the dog did not go
away.  Again I called Elizabeth to tell her how critical the situation
had become, but she did not answer the phone.  I left the message on
her answering machine.  She did not call back.

The next day I was visited again by one of the care givers with
assurance that she was going to quit and that I needed to start
looking for another care giver for mother.

You may say that I should just have let things remain as they were for
the sake of peace with my sister.  You may think I should have allowed
this care giver to walk and have hired another one.  But you would be
wrong.  For those of you who did not know Remy, allow me a moment to
digress so that you will have a full picture of the situation.

I had found Remy 2 years earlier.  She was of Philippine descent and
was married to a young man who lived near Duffield.  Remy was an
absolute marvel.  She bathed my mother every day, changed her bedding
daily, changed her briefs (mother was incontinent by this time), did
her hair, put on earrings, put on her make up, and topped it all off
with bright red lipstick.  I would go over to see mother, and there
she was in bed, propped up, watching tv, smelling like talc and
looking like she just stepped out of a fashion magazine.  Remy loved
mother.  She was never angry or sad, and was always talking, joking,
laughing.  Barbara Gail and I are convinced that the reason our mother
lived as long as she did was due to the care of Remy and the other
care giver, Angela.  Also, Remy was a worker.  The house was always as
spotless as mother.  In fact, it was the cleanest that house had ever
been.

Angela was a different type of care giver, but a jewel in her own
right.  She always did mother's nails in a bright red polish and kept
her hair dyed.  Neither of these tasks was easy.  Angela had to was
and dye mother's hair while she lay in bed.  Sometimes, she would have
to tie mother's hand to the arm of the chair with cloth because it
shook so she could not polish her nails.  But mother would have done
anything to have kept up that picture perfect image.  She knew that
she was approaching the end of life and she wanted a quality to
compensate.  Angela was attentive to her every need as well.

Both of the care givers also took care of daddy.  They had dealt with
Alzheimer patients before and knew how to calm him down when the rages
started. But neither could deal with him in the way that created the
second event that changed destiny:  his falling victim to Elizabeth.

Our parents had always done everything equally to all 3 of us
children.  If they gave one something, they would give the other two
the same or of equal value.  Even so, daddy always knew that mother
had no respect for Elizabeth and really did not like her.  She felt
that Elizabeth manipulated daddy to drain them of money.  Daddy, on
the other hand, was putty in Elizabeth's hands.  She was always
fawning on him and he loved that.  But Barbara Gail and I were a
different story.  He never liked the strong will that Barbara Gail had
always presented, nor the fact that I had been a banker rather than a
farmer.  It irked him no end that Barbara Gail and I would not pull
cedar saplings from the back 50 acres when we came home to visit.
Elizabeth, on the other hand, always went back with daddy and would
spend at least a day helping him pull cedars.  She was a girl after
his own heart.  Of course, he never really liked that fact that mother
did not pull them either.  He used to pine in private that mother
never helped him in the fields the way other men's wives did.  I guess
the fact that she worked full time and kept house for 5 people wasn't
written anywhere in his book of the top 5,000 important things in a
marriage.

So daddy started getting these phone calls from Elizabeth where he
would hold the phone for hours on end - listening.  After those calls,
he would enter mother's bedroom and bend over where she lay in bed and
start yelling at her about something.  Mother, who was frozen in bed
by her illness, was afraid and could do nothing to defend herself.
The care givers would try to get him to back off, but during these
times he would not respond until his rant was spent.

So I talked to daddy about getting rid of the dog.  I mentioned about
his sister's dog that he gave away because he already had a cat.  He
didn't remember that.  I told him this dog was running off the care
givers.  He responded by launching into a screaming rage about how he
could run his own household.

Again, both care givers visited my house and let me know that neither
would stay unless the dog went.  I called Elizabeth again and got her
answering machine again.  I told her that Barbara Gail was here and
was headed back to CA the following day.  Barbara Gail had agreed to
drive the dog to the Cincinnati airport to hand it over to Elizabeth
before her departure to CA. (Elizabeth lives outside of Dayton)  I
told her that if she did not want it, the dog was going to the pound.

Then, Woody, Elizabeth's husband called back and left a message.  I am
not sure what Elizabeth told him (she always said, “Woody knows what I
tell him”), but he threatened me on the phone if I took the dog to the
pound.

I called back.  No answer.  I told the answering machine that Barbara
Gail was staying at the Days Inn near the Cincinnati airport and would
be there from 5:00 until the next morning.  I told Elizabeth that she
had the dog with her and was waiting for Elizabeth to come pick it up.
 She did not.

The next day Barbara Gail was faced with a choice: send the dog to the
pound before she mounted the plane, or buy it a ticket and take it
with her.  She chose to do the latter.

Elizabeth saw this as an opportunity.  She convinced Daddy that we
stole his dog and got him so riled up that the two of them went to
court to get it back.  After ????????????????????????? months in
court, a judge who just wanted all of us to go away ordered the dog
returned to daddy.  Barbara Gail brought the dog back which by this
time she had successfully house broken.  Daddy hated that dog (“My cat
is afraid of it”) but Elizabeth continued to program him that this was
his dog (even though she had said it was mother's) and that Barbara
Gail and I had stolen it.

It was during this time that Elizabeth saw her opportunity for the
perfect coup.  She drove our father to the lawyer's office and had him
disown our mother (his wife of more than 60 years), Barbara Gail, and
me, thereby leaving everything our parents had worked for solely to
her and her children.  Fortunately, our mother had had the foresight
to see this coming years before and had taken daddy to deed all of the
property over to the 3 of us-to share and share alike.  Right!

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