Norma: I found your obituary yesterday, as well as a funeral notice. Walter died in Gonzales, California (17 miles south of Salinas), and was buried at the Salinas IOOF Cemetary. I also got Walter Crowder's death certificate from the Monterey County Recorder's Office. If you will email me your address, I will send these to you. The death certificate cost me $8.00 and the microfilm obit copies were $.25 each. Please send me $8.50 at the return address on the envelope. No one else with the surname CROWDER died in Monterey County from 1936 to 12/98, according to their death index. I did find a listing in the marriage index for a Roy V. CROWDER and Clothilda N. GONCALVES, dated 2 December 1907. (Book 6, pg. 87) Are these yours? --Sheila P. In a message dated 3/10/99 12:07:26 AM Pacific Standard Time, JoJoBebo@aol.com writes: << Norma: I can look up an obituary for you tomorrow (Weds. 3/10) in the Steinbeck Public Library in Salinas. It is not possible to tell if Salinas was his death location without more information, but I will give it a try. If this is your man, it will be possible to get a death certificate from the Monterey County Recorder's office in Salinas. --Sheila P. >> >>Hi, I'm sure that it is him. He worked in the lettuce and produce fields. I do remember that because that's why he was coming to get us. There was more work out there then in Hunt County, Texas. I knew he died in 1940 or 1941 but I wasn't sure which. When the war started (12/7/41), I was in the 1st grade and we lived in the next house down the road. We must have moved there between the time he died and the war started. All else I remember is that it was Salinas, CA. Probably not the city but in the surrounding area. Many thanks to all of you out there. >>Norma in Texas