Murdered Irishman John Michael O’Sullivan's wife loses home in California

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Clem hoped the bank would give her an opportunity to continue John’s work.

"I had a plan for that home that would surely have worked, but apparently the bank has no intention of working with me and instead wants to do whatever it can to make things as difficult as possible for us," Clem told the Sunday Tribune.

O’Sullivan was shot dead by neighbor Kenneth John Zimmerman, 56, while on his tractor on Sunday, August 16, 2009, after, what police said, was an ongoing feud between neighbors got out of control.

Zimmerman shot the Kerry man once in the side and twice in the back. The two men had been in a long-standing dispute over an access gate to land.

In an attempt to provide for her children, Clem made every effort possible to sell the properties or bring a business partner on board.

The bank only gave her until January 5 to come up with the money to pay the mortgage on their 40-acre ranch and their holiday home. She was unable.

Clem said she worked day and night putting together business plans and marketing her green projects.

“We need a bailout,” she told the Irish Voice in October.

The bailout never came, and now it seems Clem and her children will be homeless and penniless this Thursday.

“John’s family and some of the people on Valentia Island said I am welcome to move there. They are so great and it might be something that we may have to consider,” she said last year.

O’Sullivan is buried on Valentia Island.

Zimmerman remains in police custody. His trial has been delayed until May following a number of legal issues.

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