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A few days before Gloria Ann Plummer's body was found on a faded blue Lady Americana mattress in the concrete crawlspace under a Juneau bridge, kids threw stones at her camp.They were trying to break it down, so we chased them off," her "adopted" nephew and friend Brent Sanders, 22, said at Plummer's Friday memorial service at the Glory Hole. "That was the last time I saw her.

Sixty-one-year-old Plummer, one of Juneau's most visibly homeless chronic inebriates, died Tuesday after living on the streets for more than a decade. She spent the past five years living under the Gold Creek bridge on Egan Drive near the Alaskan & Proud with her boyfriend from Kake, Milton, and Charles Wheaton, 56.But Monday evening, she was alone. Wheaton, who gave the eulogy at Plummer's memorial service, said he missed a call from her that night.She called me and asked where I was," he said. "She was scared of going underneath the bridge by herself.

The next day, he brought her red coat because the last time he saw her in front of the old Salvation Army store, she was in pain. Efforts to convince her to go to the hospital were fruitless.But when he climbed down the rocks under the bridge, she was already gone.I didn't think she'd go that quick," he said quietly.Of the estimated 500-plus homeless people in Juneau, Plummer was easily the most vulnerable of them all, given her age, physical and mental health issues and substance abuse problems, according to Glory Hole Executive Director Mariya S. Lovishchuk.I think the combination of all those things, and just looking at her, you could see that she was just not doing good," Lovishchuk said.

Plummer died one week short of being ranked on an official "vulnerability index," which is a tool to measure who is most at risk for dying on the streets. Volunteers with the Juneau Homeless Coalition, and the coalition's partners, are beginning to survey Juneau's population of homeless chronic inebriates on Monday.The Hunger Games: Capitol-inspired fashion