Hi Peter and Russell Thanks for your help. I have looked through the original LDS films for 1962 of Zimbabwe, but there was nothing. Thanks for the Google idea. My husband remembers seeing the medals as a child, but does not know what happened to them. Now he knows,. Kind regards Barbara ----- Original Message ----- From: <south-africa-request@rootsweb.com> To: <south-africa@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 9:10 PM Subject: SOUTH-AFRICA Digest, Vol 6, Issue 114 > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Barbara Rochoy" <blrochoy@tiscali.co.za> > To: <south-africa@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 7:01 AM > Subject: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Zimbabwe > > >> Hi >> >> On Zimbabwe, does anyone have any ideas on how to find out a date of >> death >> in 1962. >> >> My husbands grandfather was Eugene Robert Rochoy, a retired signalman of >> the South Africa Railways, according to my husband and his aunt, while >> on holiday in " Umtali, Rhodesia" (Mutare, Zimbabwe) in 1962 he died of >> a >> heart attack, He would have been 62 years old. We do not know if he >> was buried or cremated there. His ' wife' Josephine Rochoy, although >> divorced, was on holiday with him, at the time. Their religion was >> Catholic. >> >> There is no Death Notice for him here in South Africa, and I have not >> been >> able to find a Death Notice registered in Zimbabwe. >> >> I would like to find out the exact date of his death, and or any copies >> of >> documents that relate to his death. If anyone is able to help it would be >> much appreciated. >> >> Thanking you >> Barbara >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> SOUTH-AFRICA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 12:01:35 -0700 > From: "Russell" <rpcdoc@shaw.ca> > Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Zimbabwe DN: ROCHOY > To: <south-africa@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <06F65EA3812B4DC8A61D1F0B72CD6FB7@HPPC> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > Dear Barbara > > If you Google his name some of his medals appear on an auction site. > > Russell > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Barbara Rochoy" <blrochoy@tiscali.co.za> > To: <south-africa@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 7:01 AM > Subject: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Zimbabwe > > >> Hi >> >> On Zimbabwe, does anyone have any ideas on how to find out a date of >> death >> in 1962. >> >> My husbands grandfather was Eugene Robert Rochoy, a retired signalman of >> the South Africa Railways, according to my husband and his aunt, while >> on holiday in " Umtali, Rhodesia" (Mutare, Zimbabwe) in 1962 he died of >> a >> heart attack, He would have been 62 years old. We do not know if he >> was buried or cremated there. His ' wife' Josephine Rochoy, although >> divorced, was on holiday with him, at the time. Their religion was >> Catholic. >> >> There is no Death Notice for him here in South Africa, and I have not >> been >> able to find a Death Notice registered in Zimbabwe. >> >> I would like to find out the exact date of his death, and or any copies >> of >> documents that relate to his death. If anyone is able to help it would be >> much appreciated. >> >> Thanking you >> Barbara >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> SOUTH-AFRICA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------