In a message dated 8/18/2007 8:54:58 AM Eastern Standard Time, karenmfox@verizon.net writes: Hi Cathy, Just a hunch, but when I said 'Efftla' out loud, the first thing that came to mind is that it was Esther and whoever wrote the obit either had a very bad typo or didn't understand the accent and wrote what they thought they "heard". Kind of how we come across all those crazy misspellings in the census records. ~Karen from Berks. ----- I just wonder if the name wasn't taken from old script where the esses can look like efs. If the name was written out in longhand it could well just have been Estella. Joan ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour