ROCKWELL COMMANDER PLT LANDS AT CLOSED ARPT DUE TO FAMILY EMER.

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MY WIFE AND I DEPARTED LPC ENRTE TO FUL ON A FAMILY EMER. THE FAMILY EMER WAS AS FOLLOWS: MY WIFE'S MOTHER WHO IS AN ELDERLY WIDOW LIVING ALONE; HAD BEEN BURGLARIZED WHILE LOCKED IN HER BEDROOM. SHE WAS BADLY TRAUMATIZED BY THE EVENT AND NEEDED OUR HELP. THERE ARE NO OTHER RELATIVES LIVING NEARBY. THE WX WAS VFR. I DID CALL THE HAWTHORN FSS AND GOT THE RECORDED WX INFO; BUT DID NOT TALK TO A BRIEFER FOR NOTAMS DUE TO THE URGENCY OF THE SIT. ABOUT 10 MI FROM FUL I TUNED THE ATIS FREQ AND LEARNED THE ARPT WAS CLOSED FROM BA00 UNTIL BB00 BUT WITHOUT ANY EXPLANATION AS TO WHY. THIS IS NOT NORMAL FOR THIS ARPT AND; SINCE THE TIME WAS ONLY ABOUT BA05 AT THIS POINT AND THE SIT BORDERED ON AN EMER; I MADE THE DECISION TO GO AHEAD AND LAND. THE ACTUAL LNDG WAS AT BA10 AND WAS COMPLETED WITHOUT INCIDENT. I PARKED THE AIRPLANE; AFTER WHICH I WAS APCHED BY AN ARPT MAINT PERSON WHO INFORMED ME THE REASON FOR THE CLOSURE WAS FOR MAINT. HE ASKED ME FOR MY NAME; ADDRESS AND PHONE NUMBER; WHICH I GAVE HIM. PRIOR TO THE TKOF FROM LOMPOC MY WIFE HAD CALLED A FRIEND WHO LIVED NEAR FUL AND ASKED HER TO MEET US AT THE ARPT BTWN BA00 AND BA15 SO SHE COULD GIVE US A RIDE TO MY MOTHER-IN-LAW'S HOME. THE FRIEND WAS WAITING AND TOOK US AS REQUESTED.