Try contacting the Isothermal College and asking if they can check for an obit. I have getting a lot of more recent information through obits. Barbara Dyer Channell MGREENE@isothermal.cc.nc.us (Michael Greene) Researching -- Dyer's, Splawn's, Childerses, Gibbses, McBrayer's, Allen's, Griffin's, Waldrop's, Channell's, Folsom's, Whisler's, Breed's and a whole lot more!