This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JW.2ADE/7924 Message Board Post: Old Prospector Passes Away George Mervin Silveria, 72, long time resident of Johannesburg died Jan. 18 in the Kern Genera Hospital He was an old gold and copper miner and prospector, according to available informatior Mr. Silveria was born Nov. 13, 1882 in San Bernardino, Calif. and evidently spent the greater part of his life in the desert. He is survived by a brother Herman H. of San Diego county and a niece whose name we were unable to learn. Funeral services will be held Friday, Jan. 28 at 3:00 p.m. at the Community Methodist Church in Randsburg. Interment is scheduled at Johannesburg cemetery, Posted by East Kern Genealogical Society Courtesy of Mojave Desert News California City, Kern, CA Published: 27 Jan 1955