By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Saturday, November 10, 1990
The Record (New Jersey) | All Editions | NEWS | Page A03
An elderly borough woman is alive today, neighbors say, thanks to the care and alertness of her mail carrier, who noticed Thursday that she had not collected her mail the day before.
Else Beisler, 87, fell down the stairs into her basement Tuesday evening and lay there for nearly two days, said Nancy Bachmann, her neighbor on Feronia Way.
Bachmann, 33, said Beisler fell while taking out newspapers to be recycled. She said she entered the house, found the woman, and called an ambulance Thursday afternoon after the mail carrier, Robert Drecshel, rang her doorbell.
Beisler “gets a lot of mail, and she picks up her mail every day,” Drecshel said.
So when he noticed that the mail he had delivered Wednesday was still in the mailbox on Thursday, he asked Bachmann if she had seen Beisler.
Beisler was in fair condition with two broken wrists at Hackensack Medical Center, a hospital spokeswoman said Friday.
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