This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ZYE.2ACEB/192.193.195.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks so much for your response. The only one in years!! William Brooks Reynolds was my grandfather. At some point in his youth his parents divorced, Mabel remarried Howard Russell, a policeman in Venice Beach California. The story goes like this: While on a business trip to Boulder Colorado, William (Billy) ingested arsenic, and died the same day. It was ruled a suicide. My grandmother remarried, and my father adopted the name McDonald (Richard Brooks McDonald, born Richard Brooks Reynolds b.07/20/1936, Los Angeles, CA. d.02/28/1996, Quiny, CA. Both Billy and his mother are buried in Los Angeles, CA. My father was 2 years old at the time. Any information on the Reynolds would be helpful in my search. Thanks again!!!! I once heard Otis was a Barber, is that true??? and did he own his own shop?