CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - Just two days after an elderly Cedar Rapids woman passed away, someone broke in to her home and burglarized it.

On Thursday, her family received the news, just a few hours after the funeral. Harriet Feldmann, 76, passed away Monday from a brief illness.

“She enjoyed painting and playing the piano. That was her life, and church. She wasn’t a healthy lady, but she never bothered anybody,” said Nicholas Rieger, Feldmann’s brother.

Just hours before, or perhaps during, her funeral Thursday morning, someone broke in to her vacant home. Police said it was sometime between 10:30 p.m. Wednesday and 10:30 a.m. Thursday.

“Well we had a nice funeral service and we were just sitting at the restaurant eating and Kathy got a call saying the house had been ransacked, which just put more on us,” said Rieger.

“I think it’s wrong. It’s sick. There is somebody sick around this neighborhood that would do something like that,” said Holly Cheney, who lives in the neighborhood.

Family members cleaned the house on Thursday. “They didn’t leave anything unturned. They emptied out the drawers, turned over the furniture, looks like they may have taken her purse and anything valuable out of the house,” said Rieger, “I do believe the good Lord will come get them and it’s not going to be promising.”

Some neighbors and family members suspect this wasn’t a coincidence.

“It had to have been just somebody that was in the neighborhood that knew it and had to of taken advantage of the situation,” said Chase Mead, who lives in the neighborhood. Mead said his girlfriend called police after they notice a door was open on Feldmann’s house.

“It’s really sad that people take this opportunity to benefit themselves,” said Rieger. “I just don’t understand how somebody would have enough nerve to do that to somebody that is no longer here,” said Cheney.

Neighbors added that the neighborhood is typically very quiet and peaceful. “it’s just kids up and down the block all summer long, it’s really a good neighborhood. It’s the first time anything like this has happened and it’s horrible,” said Mead. “It is a very nice neighborhood, I see neighbors out all the time. People are very nice on this block,” said Cheney.

No arrests have been made in the case. Neighbors say they plan to keep watch over the house until it’s no longer vacant. Family members said they appreciate neighbors and police who watched over Feldmann while she lived on her own. If you have any information, you are asked to contact police.