Jou Louis's Sister Dies

Joe Louis' sister, 92, dies in cold near Southfield apartment - Boxing - Yahoo! Sports
Joe Louis’ sister, 92, dies in cold near Southfield apartment

Feb 21, 12:11 am EST

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SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (AP)—The 92-year-old sister of boxing great Joe Louis, was found frozen to death outside her apartment at an assisted-living center.
The body of Vunies High, who had Alzheimer’s disease, was found Monday outside The Heatherwood retirement complex in Southfield, a Detroit suburb, said Capt. Tom Colombo of Southfield emergency medical services.
High, who spent 25 years as a teacher and counselor for Detroit Public Schools, was last seen Sunday. When she was found, she was dressed only in pajamas and was wearing one shoe, with the other lying nearby. An autopsy shows she died of hypothermia.

That's awful, how could she freeze to death :mad:

A day before her brother is honoured with a HBO documentary as well. :eek:

She must have gotten locked out. That's horrible. :eek:

...didn't Joe have Alzhiemers? She may have had that or a form of dementia which could explain what she would be doing outside in the cold in only pajamas and with one shoe off

It is a shame

Aww poor thing, thats a real shame. My condolensces to the family members. Someone at that home should have noticed, or did she wander off at night? Unfortunate.

Thats heartbreaking, RIP.

Wow...Don't really know what else to say...That is a shame....What a terrible way to pass...God Bless her

That's bad when it happens to anyone old or young, my heart goes out to her and her family.This reminds me of Geronimo, a great man by any standard after all the battles he faced, hell him and a hand full of men whipped Mexico and evaded the US for a long time, after years in prison he became a celebrity making money by selling souvenirs and photographs with his autograph on them. Going home from a bar one cold night he fell off of his horse into a mudhole and froze to death he was 80(I saw this on a documentary 20 years before Wikipedia came along) what a sad way for a man to die ecspecailly when he was so great.Moral to the story you are not so good to escape death.

To have the sister of one of the greatest ever die like that,in a city that has an arena bearing his name,is just tragic

Poor old dear.

What is the world coming to when old and confused people are left so alone that this can happen to them?