'They're literally staying inside an oven.' According to family, the high school sweethearts believed they could live a couple of days without working A/C. But that proved to be deadly in the end.
"They're literally staying inside an oven." A family says their loved ones believed they could gut out a couple of days without A/C after their cooling broke down. It proved to be lethal.This week would have been Ramona and Monway Ison's 52nd wedding anniversary. They were high school sweethearts.
Their neighbor and friend, Eddie Phillips, said the couple was always looking out for others. Phillips does not have a car, so Ramona Ison often drove him to medical appointments. He was eager to help the couple in turn. He offered to have them stay in his home. When they declined, he offered up a portable air-conditioning unit.Floods said her father had mobility issues. She believes it made them apprehensive to leave the home.
On Thursday, June 15, the couple secured a loan. They called and scheduled the repairs for Friday. Floods said her mother used some of the money to purchase fans. The couple was used to working in the heat and grew up without air conditioning.The ordeal is motivating the couple's daughter to press the various A/C and energy corporations to help those like her parents.
Phillips said Ramona Ison never missed a morning walk with her dog. When he didn't see the pair out Friday, June 16, he grew worried.
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