This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gossett, Chisler, Deioannis, Gilman Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HY.2ADE/1625 Message Board Post: Hello List Subscribers and Message Board, I am looking for info about Della GOSSETT, b. 1898 Missouri who married first a CHISLER (she was mentioned as Mrs. Della Chisler in Feb 1935) and later she was married to a DEIOANNIS, possibly it was Dominic Deioannis, but I am not sure yet. I should know within a couple weeks. I have already sent my request & fee to obtain her obituary, but I was wondering if there was anyone out there who knew Della or her family. She died in 1955, so it has been a long time. She was my great-grandmother's sister. Much of the rest of her family lived in Wyoming. I don't know what took her to California. Della also had an older sister who died young in Missouri. Her name was Beulah Gossett GILMAN. There was a Virginia GILMAN who died in Dec 2000 in Exeter. The SSDI shows that Virginia was born in Missouri, as was Della and her sisters. I wonder if perhaps Virginia was Della's niece and since Della's sister died young, maybe Della raised Virginia Gilman. Does anyone out there know anything about Virginia Gilman? She was about 72 when she died in 2000. No one who is living in Della's sisters' and brothers' families knows much at all about Della (at least that I have found). I think this is partly because she died so long ago, and partly because she was California, far from the rest of her family. I would very much like to include her in my family history. If anyone has suggestions about my learning more about Della Gossett Chisler Deioannis, I would appreciate hearing from you. Specifically, I am going to look for her marriage records, her career, involvements in clubs or organizations and does she have any descendants out there?? I know most of this may appear in her obituary, but sometimes additional data about the deceased isn't inlcuded in obituaries. I will follow up this message after I receive her obituary and let you know if I have any additional data. Laura