Thank you very much, jaw, for your reply to my question. I had looked at the Illinois death index and couldn't find Nellie. That is why I was wondering if there was a newspaper obit index, in case she died out of state. She was a life long resident of LaSalle County and married into two local families, the Rices and the Gretencords. Perhaps Grand Ridge had its own newspaper at that time, but if so, I don't know what it could be. I have found though, that if other LaSalle papers carried stories which concerned people who had lived around Streator, the Streator newspaper would usually catch and report it. Does the Streator paper have an index which would have the years 1927 and 1928? Thanks again - Joy