Avon Lake Mother Was Dead for 3 Months Before Discovery

The Lorain County Coroner has ruled that mother and daughter Marcia and Linda  Waugaman of Harvey Boulevard died of natural causes, but Marcia had been dead for almost three months inside the family home before being discovered, and her daughter several weeks.

Dawn Quarick of the Lorain County Coroner’s office said Marcia's date of death was listed as April 26. She was 85.

“That’s the closest date we can determine,” Quarick said.

Linda’s date of death was determined to be July 10.

The police discovered both women inside the home after conducting a welfare check on July 26.

Marcia and her daughter, Linda, 58, were found in their home at 128 Harvey Pkwy. Police were forced to break in the house after efforts to try to reach them failed.

No one had heard from or seen the pair, who were reportedly reclusive by nature, in several weeks.

lieutenant Duane Streator said at the time they were found that the police had been in contact with them in the past, as had neighbors.

“The neighbors rarely saw them but would leave food for them by their door,” Streator said on July 28. “We had some previous dealings with them and the mother assured me they were all right. The mother was very evasive and very protective of her daughter.”

Marcia Waugaman's husband Charles died in 1972. Marcia was a former worker at the.