PpsychoSal@aol.com wrote: > Hi. > First of all, sorry if you receive duplicates, but I wanted to send this to > both DC lists. > > I have a very urgent request especially since the Dept. of health in DC is > not being very helpful. > My grandmothers cousin is very ill and has been in 2 sanitariums here in > Wisconsin. Her will has been lost, as most of her personal papers. She is > dying and we'd like to make funeral arrangements for her, but want to be sure > we'd do the right thing. She is a Christian Scientist, and belongs to the > order of the Eastern Star. Her parents are buried here in Wisconsin. She > never married, had no children. We are her closest relative, but we never > talked about arrangements. SO.. To make the story short, her sister, who she > lived with most of her life, died while they were living in Washington, DC. > I have her social security report saying her death place was Lynn House, > Washington, DC. I wrote to the (Vital Statistics) Dept. of Health in DC for > her Death Certificate, paid the $12.00 and received a "CERTIFICATE OF SEARCH" > from them stating they have no evidence of her death. > > It is imperative that I find her death certificate to find her place of > burial, if any. We don't know if she was cremated, or perhaps donated her > body to science, and we'd like to know, knowing that both sisters would have > made the same choices. A direct phone number to someone at the Dept. of > Health (Not to a phone line answered by a machine), r > > If anyone can help me out, it would be wonderful. The information I need is > for Verna or Verne Schult, born Oct 26, 1891 in Wis. Died January 15, 1985, > at Lynn House Sanitarium, Washington, DC. If it helps, her sister's name is > Veryl Schult. > Any leads would be appreciated. > > Thank you so much, > > Sally Lauersdorf Hagen > Waukesha, WI > > ============================== > Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate > your heritage! > http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog did you contact the sanitorium in d.c.? or where ever their records would be stored if they are no longer operating? may also be a spelling error in records at vital statistics. you should also ,"just in case" check with your grandmothers cousin's bank she use to use and see if she ever had a safety deposit box ,explain this entire situation with everyone you question or search through. also ask around if she ever had a lawyer,most of the time lawyers hold the will's. -- from:D.L.M.FOX FAMILY INVESTIGATIONS & GENEALOGY RESEARCH-UPDATED JULY 29,2001 http://sites.netscape.net/INVESTIGATORFOX/homepage http://americasunknownchild.net/ http://www.ancestry.com/main.htm?sourceid=00289336853522699155