This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0hB.2ACE/1440.1.1 Message Board Post: Pauline, Thank you very much for the information. My mother was named after her aunt Vlasta whose maiden name was Simecek. According to family records, she died on August 28, 1931 at the age of 29; my mother was 3 years old at the time. Her family were Czech immigrants who farmed around the Central Texas area. They always questioned her death, maybe because she died suddenly. I believe she was pregnant at the time. The family would not have had the means to look into the circumstances of her death in 1931, and I know my grandmother spoke very little English. I was going to try to find a death certificate and the obituary that would have appeared in the Marlin Democrat. Thank you again, and if you ever learn anything more I would appreciate you sharing it with me. Debbie Havlik