Alfred Soares SS-5

I received a letter in the mail from the Social Security administration.  At first I thought it was another one of those phony Statement of Benefits for Social Security.  You know the forms that make it look like I am paying into a system and accruing benefits.  They are very misleading but that is beside [...]

A response from Cochran Mortuary about Alfred Soares

So I received an email today from the Cochran Mortuary. Here is the email: Mr. Silva: I have found an Alfred Soares. My records don’t show any family surviving. Only a conservator and a friend that stepped forward to take care of him in death. Based on some of the information you have supplied me, [...]

Emailed Cochran Mortuary About Alfred Soares

I sent a second email to the Cochran Mortuary for more information on Alfred Soares.  I hope that they respond.  The mortuary need to know my relation to the deceased before releasing any information.  Alfred Soares is my great granduncle.  I hope that although I am not a direct descendant, the mortuary will provide me [...]

Grave Location of Alfred Soares

I received a reply from the Lakeview Funeral Home Assistant Manager/Funeral Director. See Update: The Continuing Saga of Alfred Soares for more history on this request. She gave me the location of Alfred Soares’ grave in the Lakeview Cemetery in Wichita Kansas. Here’s what he wrote: Alfred Soares grave location is: Garden: Gethsemane II Lot: [...]

Update: The Continuing Saga of Alfred Soares

On April 8th I received a reply form the Lakeview Cemetery. Here is what they had to say: The obit you sent tells me that Cochran Mortuary handled the service for that person. You may try contacting them, as they would have a lot more information in their records than we do. I will get [...]

The Continuing Saga of Alfred Soares

I have continued my research by emailing the cemetery listed in the obituary for more information. I am hoping that I can get a birth date from the tombstone. This would help me determine if this is the Alfred Soares that I am looking for or some other Alfred Soares. I am not certain that [...]

An Interesting Possibility for Alfred Soares Part III

So I gave in and paid the $3.00 to further my research. Here’s what the obituary had to say: Wichita Eagle, The (KS) – April 30, 1986 Deceased Name: ALFRED J. SOARES ALFRED J. SOARES, 67, of 2051 S. Kansas, former Beech Aircraft Corp. employee, died Monday, April 28, 1986. Service 3 p.m. Thursday, Lakeview [...]

An Interesting Possibility for Alfred Soares Part II

So I decided to try to find the obituary.  It seems like the Wichita’s newspaper is the Eagle.  After a quick Google search for the Wichita Eagle Archives I found ObitsArchive.com.  I searched using Alfred Soares as the name of the deceased and April 1986 as the publication date.  There was only one hit for [...]

An Interesting Possibility for Alfred Soares (Adopted Son of José and Clara Soares)

I was setting out to try to do some research for Alfred Soares.  He is the adopted son of José and Clara Soares.  I know he was born in Wailuku on 12/8/18 from Ancestry.com’s California Passenger and Crew Lists, 1893-1957.  From other entries the birth date is Dec 8th 1918.  He was on the SS [...]