To my friends and relatives-- I just want to reassure my friends and relatives on the MDGARRET List that I remain among the living. I regret the concern and confusion caused by the death of another Walter Warnick. I appreciate the kind words offered by a number of folks on this List. This was all caused by a fluke coincidence. It is a rare occasion that I go more than a day or so without reading the MDGARRET List. Such a rare occasion occurred this past week, when my wife Anne and I were away visiting our daughter in Little Rock, Ankansas. When I am out of town, I do not access my home e-mail. As fate would have it, this is precisely the time when the news broke about another Walter Warnick having passed away. While I do not access my home e-mail remotely, I do access my work e-mail. List member Shelly Johnson tracked down my work e-mail address and sent me a message. Thanks to Shelly's initiative, the confusion about the two Walter Warnicks was cleared up sooner than it would have otherwise. The Walter Warnick who passed away was descended from western Maryland Warnicks. His full name was Charles Walter Warnick, but he went by his middle name. Years ago, I interviewed him for my Warnick book. He was born 4/17/1916 near Greenwood, Delaware. At Harrington, Delaware, on 3/15/1942, he married Mary Hazel Pearson who was born 12/17/1921 at Harrington, Delaware. Walter was very interested in his Warnick ancestors. As noted on this List, he recently died of West Nile virus. He was son of Charles Warnick who was born 12/23/1883 near New Germany. At Cumberland on 5/29/1907, Charles married Magdalena "Maggie" Wisseman who was born 10/30/1878, near Accident, MD. Maggie's parents were Conrad Wisseman and Barbara Bender. Maggie was Mennonite. Sometime in the 1910s, a number of western Maryland Mennonite families relocated to the vicinity of Greenwood, Delaware, and Maggie and her children were among them. Charles died 12/8/1916 at a hospital in Baltimore. He is buried at Springs, PA. Maggie lived most of her life at Greenwood, Delaware, near a number of other Mennonite families related to her. Walt Warnick PS for Connie: Anne and I now have two plots in the Bittinger Cemetery near the plots of my parents, maternal grandparents and great-grandparents.