Lakeland Man Locks World Out, Dies Alone in House
Brown, known in his youth as Billy, graduated from Lakeland High School in 1949. He was a member of the National Junior Honor Society, the Pan-American Club and the Torch Club, and he served as assistant feature editor of the Bagpipe, the student newspaper.
Brown's father, William Brown, owned a piano store in Lakeland, according to a neighbor. Apparently the younger Brown learned the instrument well enough to play a regular gig at an Orlando night club in the 1960s, the neighbor said, before returning to his parents' home.
An elderly man spends his final months in a filthy house with no electricity or water service during one of the hottest summers on record. He withers and dies alone in a shadowy and crumbling house across the street from a busy shopping center. Evidence suggests the man had psychological problems and may have been desperately hungry.
The lonesome death of William E. Brown Jr. would be shocking enough had it happened in some backwater shack or inner-city tenement building. It seems unthinkable that it could happen in the heart of Lakeland, a city whose residents pride themselves on helping their neighbors.
Full Article can be found on the website for The Ledger, Lakeland, FL. No obituary was printed.
Brown, known in his youth as Billy, graduated from Lakeland High School in 1949. He was a member of the National Junior Honor Society, the Pan-American Club and the Torch Club, and he served as assistant feature editor of the Bagpipe, the student newspaper.
Brown's father, William Brown, owned a piano store in Lakeland, according to a neighbor. Apparently the younger Brown learned the instrument well enough to play a regular gig at an Orlando night club in the 1960s, the neighbor said, before returning to his parents' home.
An elderly man spends his final months in a filthy house with no electricity or water service during one of the hottest summers on record. He withers and dies alone in a shadowy and crumbling house across the street from a busy shopping center. Evidence suggests the man had psychological problems and may have been desperately hungry.
The lonesome death of William E. Brown Jr. would be shocking enough had it happened in some backwater shack or inner-city tenement building. It seems unthinkable that it could happen in the heart of Lakeland, a city whose residents pride themselves on helping their neighbors.
Full Article can be found on the website for The Ledger, Lakeland, FL. No obituary was printed.
Lakeland Man Locks World Out, Dies Alone in House
Brown, known in his youth as Billy, graduated from Lakeland High School in 1949. He was a member of the National Junior Honor Society, the Pan-American Club and the Torch Club, and he served as assistant feature editor of the Bagpipe, the student newspaper.
Brown's father, William Brown, owned a piano store in Lakeland, according to a neighbor. Apparently the younger Brown learned the instrument well enough to play a regular gig at an Orlando night club in the 1960s, the neighbor said, before returning to his parents' home.
An elderly man spends his final months in a filthy house with no electricity or water service during one of the hottest summers on record. He withers and dies alone in a shadowy and crumbling house across the street from a busy shopping center. Evidence suggests the man had psychological problems and may have been desperately hungry.
The lonesome death of William E. Brown Jr. would be shocking enough had it happened in some backwater shack or inner-city tenement building. It seems unthinkable that it could happen in the heart of Lakeland, a city whose residents pride themselves on helping their neighbors.
Full Article can be found on the website for The Ledger, Lakeland, FL. No obituary was printed.
Brown, known in his youth as Billy, graduated from Lakeland High School in 1949. He was a member of the National Junior Honor Society, the Pan-American Club and the Torch Club, and he served as assistant feature editor of the Bagpipe, the student newspaper.
Brown's father, William Brown, owned a piano store in Lakeland, according to a neighbor. Apparently the younger Brown learned the instrument well enough to play a regular gig at an Orlando night club in the 1960s, the neighbor said, before returning to his parents' home.
An elderly man spends his final months in a filthy house with no electricity or water service during one of the hottest summers on record. He withers and dies alone in a shadowy and crumbling house across the street from a busy shopping center. Evidence suggests the man had psychological problems and may have been desperately hungry.
The lonesome death of William E. Brown Jr. would be shocking enough had it happened in some backwater shack or inner-city tenement building. It seems unthinkable that it could happen in the heart of Lakeland, a city whose residents pride themselves on helping their neighbors.
Full Article can be found on the website for The Ledger, Lakeland, FL. No obituary was printed.
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