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.
Gravel(noun) small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand. Gravel(noun) a deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. Gravel(verb) to cover with gravel; as, to gravel a walk.