Finding Your Roots

Now Surly, this record was filed in the city of St. Louis in 1954. Would you please read the transcribed section. Name of deceased, Willy May Brown.

Date of death

October 10th, 1954.

Date of birth

February 26, 1925. Ooh. 29. This is a death certificate for your father's mother. Right. Now she died at the young age of 29, a month before your father's 13th birthday. Wow. Did you have any idea about that? That your father, like you, lost a parent at such a young age? Never talked about it. No I had no idea. I think about my dad being 45 and how young he was. Oh yeah. She was 29. She had heart complications just like your father did. Yeah. My people, my people. There you go. - Golly.