From The Fresno Morning Republican. Saturday, December 25, 1909

"Jean Clemens died not directly from drowning, as was first supposed,
but more probably of strangulation due to an attack of epilepsy, or from
heart failure. The body was found in the bath tub with the head only
partly submerged and medical examination tonight showed that the lungs
contained little water."

In a 1989 American Neurological Association article, researchers
reported that sudden unexpected death without obvious cause accounts
for a substantial portion of reported deaths among epileptics; however,
this phenomenon is still not widely recognized nor appreciated.  In a
more recent article entitled, Sudden Death in Epilepsy, published
in the winter 1997 issue of The Medical Journal of Allina, epileptic
patients who had never been able to achieve complete seizure control,
who had suffered from epilepsy for years possibly from the result of a
head injury and who were between 20 and 40 years of age and in excellent
health except for epilepsy were viewed as high risk for sudden death.
Jean falls within these parameters.

Laura Trombley