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/hkB.2ACE/5591.1 Message Board Post: There is no index to newspaper obituaries for any 1947. None of the newspapers for 1947 have been indexed or abstracted. Therefore, it would be impossible for anyone to help you without a full and complete date of death! You should first obtain the date of death from the Texas Death Index, available on microfilm at the Dallas Public Library, Clayton Library in Houston, State Library & Archives in Austin, etc. After you have obtained the date of death, you should go to the Lucy Hill Patterson Memorial Library where the Rockdale Reporter newspaper is on microfilm and beginning reading newspapers. The library does NOT have a microfilm printer and so, if you find an obituary, you have to hand copy all information.