Blind Widow Could Lose Land Over $38 Tax Bill

Illinois Farmgirl Virginia A. Juenger may lose her farm because of a $38 tax bill? That’s what the headline says in the Belleville News-Democrat.

The 89-year-old blind widow apparently never got notice that she was in arrears by $38. Nor did she get notice that her $100,000 property – 35 acres farmed by a tenant farmer in St. Clair County – was sold in a tax sale for a fraction of its worth.

Pretty suspicious…to say the least. Not even the tenant farmer was notified. How hard would it have been to find Mrs. Juenger, who has lived in the area for years.

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