Poverty kills

Our unhoused neighbor who had settled in across the street has died. There is no reason to suspect human foul play, just deprivation and possibly her own demons.

She made it as long as she did by projecting a fierce independence; don't mess with me, her whole bearing screamed. So we left her alone. She died alone in her tent.

Mission Local found neighbors who shared memories of Jacqueline ‘Jackie’ Rieber.