It looks like Mr. Worthington's family knows he is deceased. I found a FindAGrave posting with photographs of a family tombstone listing his parents, likely his younger brother, and himself. He pre-deceased all of them.
FindAGrave link with family plot photographs:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=28318334
William Gerald Worthington
Birth: Sep. 15, 1952
Death: Jan. 5, 2000
Burial:
Red Oak Cemetery
Red Oak
Ellis County
Texas, USA
William Gerald Worthington, "California, Birth Index, 1905-1995"
name: William Gerald Worthington
event: Birth
event date: 15 Sep 1952
event place: Los Angeles, California, United States
gender: Male
mother: Perkinson
William G Worthington, "United States Social Security Death Index"
first name: William
middle name: G
last name: Worthington
name suffix:
birth date: 15 September 1952
social security number: 566-88-8387
place of issuance: California
last residence:
zip code of last residence:
death date: 5 January 2000
estimated age at death: 48
His mother's FindAGrave listing (
link here) confirms the birth record's listing of mother's miaden name:
Sara Ruth Perkinson Worthington
Birth: Sep. 10, 1932
Death: May 26, 2002
Daughter of Bill and Roberta (Mabra) Perkinson. She married Gerald L. Worthington.
Burial:
Red Oak Cemetery
Red Oak
Ellis County
Texas, USA
I also found a record for a possible previous marriage which can be researched further if this finding does not pan out.
