1987 (#19) - Neil's sudden death from stroke and the grief of Joanna and Lauren

Quite unexpectedly, a tragedy soon struck Genoa City and the Fenmore family. Everything happens when, at the end of an intense day of work at the Fenmore warehouses, Neil returns home to Joanna and, just before dinner, he feels a strong pain in his head. Joanna is shocked when she sees Neil unconscious in the armchair; panicked, and with dinner spilling on the floor, the woman desperately calls the emergency room, where Neil is immediately admitted and urgently operated by Dr. Roy Namaguchi. Lauren soon arrives at the hospital, but finds Joanna in tears, speechless after the tragedy that took place: Neil is dead. Lauren despairs with her mother over the loss of their first touchstone, and together, full of grief, they remember Neil and Joanna's plan to reunite the family with a new marriage; a marriage that, unfortunately, will no longer exist. Joanna and Lauren, completely overwhelmed by grief over this huge loss, are consoled at the funeral by all their acquaintances; in particular, it is Brad who stands beside his current partner to give her strength, under the petrified gaze of Paul, shocked to see his ex-wife already next to another man.