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Subject: Woman, Wrongly Declared Dead, Dies of Cancer in Seattle Hospital<From News
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 92 04:54:43 EST
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Woman, Wrongly Declared Dead, Dies of Cancer in Seattle
Hospital<From News Services=

SEATTLE, Nov. 3 - Roberta Jones of Seattle, found alive at a fun-
eral home after being mistakenly declared dead two days ago, died
this morning at a hospital, a nursing supervisor said.

Jones, 68, of Seattle died from complications of advanced cancer,
Harborview Medical Center supervisor said.

Jones suffered from colon cancer, a hospital official said ear-
lier.  She was erroneously declared dead Sunday, when a fire
department medic summoned by a worried out-of-town relative found
her lying on the floor of her apartment with a body temperature
of 90 degrees and no apparent pulse.

A funeral-home employee noticed what he thought was faint breath-
ing as he began unloading Jones' sheet-covered body from a
stretcher to the mortuary Sunday.  Medic units were called, con-
firmed that she was alive and rushed her to Harborview.

Hospital spokesman Larry Zalin said she was treated for hypother-
mia, or low body temperature, apparently brought on by her ill-
ness.<02:08 11-04C9999-----

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