Money

The death of Aubrey Lampp made Fran a very wealthy widow. He had taken out a very generous life insurance policy before going to the field as a missionary. Fran later remarried but apparently the second husband frittered away most of the money and then committed suicide, or at least that is what I think I heard on the grapevine. Fran is not that wealthy now. We don't know anything about her now. We just never hear about them anymore. There is no reason to stay in touch with them. Especially not now. After all, Fran was not very happy with my parents. In the days immediately after Aubrey died, while arrangements were being made to have his body flown to the U.S. for the funeral in Panama City, a lot of people were hanging out at the mission house trying to be helpful. My parents were over there and Fran later made it known that she was very disturbed about my mother asking too many questions about the funeral arrangements. Also, when one local pastor came to the door to pay his respects to the widow, my parents answered the door and told him that she was sleeping and could not meet with him at that moment and asked him to maybe come back later. Fran later made it known that she was always available to receive the people and that she would have been willing to come out and meet with him and that it was very presumptuous of my parents to turn the pastor away. Apparently, the pastor had felt very belittled at being turned away, as if the pastors were not the real family and the missionaries the pretenders to be turned away. So it was a big mess to put it mildly.