Hi Don..I hope this helps in your search....Alma..Merced Co. Volunteer Death Certificate transcription. Merced County. Book 26, page 241 Leslie Harvey Thornberry Death date: June 11, 1964 Time: 5:10 a.m. Age: 78 yrs Sex: Male Color/Race: White Marital status: Married SS#: none Occupation: Farmer, Life, Self, Farming Birthdate: Dec 11, 1885 Birthplace: Kansas Name and birthplace of Mother: Laura -----, PA. Name and birthplace of Father: Stephen Thornberry, Kent. Name of spouse: Rose Thornberry Length of stay in County of death: 8 yrs, In CA: 25 yrs Last usual residence: 1300 Elm, Atwater, CA Place of death: Merced Convalescent Hospital, 510 W. 26th St., Merced, CA Burial date: June 13, 1964 Burial place: Winton District Cemetery, Winton, CA Funeral director: V.H. Worden Informant: Rose Jackson (daug) 775 Gentry Way, Reno, NV Cause of death: Pneumonia bilateral bronchial hypoplastic bone (?). W.Neal Carter, M.D., Atwater, CA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Merced Sun-Star, Merced, CA. Friday, June 12, 1964 Leslie H. Thornberry Atwater - Funeral services will be conducted in the Atwater Worden Funeral Chapel Saturday at 10 a.m., for Leslie Harvey Thornberry, 78, of 1300 Elm St. Atwater, who died Thursday in a Merced Hospital. Burial will be in Winton District Cemetery. Rev. Frank Spark of Southern Baptist Church will officiate. He is survived by his wife, Rose; one brother, Leo of Kansas; one sister, Mrs. Pearl Acord of Oklahoma; five sons, Edgar of Sierra Madre, Elvin of Kansas, Emmett of Oklahoma, Alford of Colorado, Joseph of Montana; five daughters, Mrs. Laura Titus of Oregon; Mrs. Irene Harbor of Oregon; Mrs. Mildred Slayton of Los Angeles, Mrs. Rose Jackson of Nevada, Mrs. Grace Whales of Massachusetts and 29 grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren. A native of Kansas, he moved to Oklahoma as a young man. He homesteaded a farm and his children were born and reared there. Twenty-five years ago he came to the Los Angeles area and eight years ago came to Atwater. He has been in the Hospital since July of 1963. In a message dated 05/14/2002 6:37:40 PM Pacific Daylight Time, arg0nut@mindspring.com writes: << I am Don Webber living in Pine Grove, Ca in the motherlode country. Recently I was given the task of finding burial information on all my Peavey relatives, who came here to California. That included 27 individuals, however so far I find only one from Merced County. > Leslie H. Thornberry, b. 22 Dec 1885 in unknown place; died 11 Jun 1964 in Atwater, Merced County and buried on 14 Jun 1964. Most of this info came from the California Death Records web site, and no SS# was found. The place of birth as well as place of burial have not been discovered as yet - at least not by us. It is that data that I hope you can help us with. His spouse, Rosa B. Day/Thornberry, b. 23 Dec 1887 in Kansas; d. 12 May 1966 in Los Angeles, buried on 14 May 1966 in a place unknown to us. No SS# available. (Excuse my grammar.) All us Peavey researchers will be grateful for your efforts. And of course, I will be happy to pay reasonable expenses. My sincere thanks. Don fathiker@volcano.net >>