THOMAS J. SHEERAN; The Associated Press Published: October 13th, 2008 12:30 AM AKRON, Ohio – By the time deputies came to escort Addie Polk out of her home of 38 years, the 90-year-old had taken out her life insurance policy and placed it next to her pocketbook and keys in the neatly kept house. She shot herself in the chest Oct. 1 before she could be taken away from the foreclosed house, which was worth less than its mortgage from the day she took out the loan. A congressman called her the face of a national tragedy, the housing crisis that has affected millions of Americans. Neighbors were stunned and said they had no idea the widow had been about to lose her two-story, white vinyl home. And Polk, as she recovered, sounded a bit regretful. “She said that was a crazy thing to do,” said neighbor Robert Dillon, 62, who visited...
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