Tom Bowden <TBowden@urrea.org> wrote:

Apparently none of his ex-wives(!) or adopted sons knew Billy was a woman until her death, when a medical examiner (or funeral director) came to the mobile home s/he lived in to pick up the body, and broke the news to her boys. Tom

Based on dimly remembered stories in the press when I still lived in Seattle, it's my understanding that the woman or women who were married to Tipton when the kids were adopted DID know that Tipton was female, but the wives with whom Tipton did not adopt any children did NOT know this. -- Herb Levy P O Box 9369 Fort Worth, TX 76147 herb@eskimo.com