Under California law, a birth must be registered before the baby turns one, which will be in three days time. Poignant: The couple have named the girl after Maya's later mother Minnie Riperton, who died aged 31, pictured here in 1978 a year before her death with her daughter Maya, son Marc and husband Richard.
Gravel as a cause of death could be kidneystones. If a husband and wife both died of it....could it possibly have been environmental? Maybe something they were eating? The reason they both had it is a guess...but gravel usually refers to a type of stones in the body.
Causes of death in cancer patients. Ambrus JL, Ambrus CM, Mink IB, Pickren JW. Causes of death in the year 1970 were analyzed retrospectively on the basis of clinical and pathologic reports of 506 cases in the Roswell Park Memorial Institute and Hospital. The single major cause of death was infection (36%), which was also a contributory factor in an additional 68% of the cases. Other important causes of death were hemorrhagic and thromboembolic phenomena (18%), which also were contributory factors in an additional 43%.