# parents *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 07 Dec 2004* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### aramini1 at cox.net *07 Dec 2004, 07:18* Certainly Gene's parents survived until after the Korean war, as indicated by Letters Home, which are letters Gene's mother saved. His father probably died before his mother. There is a non-fiction story called "Kid Sister" in which Gene talks about driving with his mother across country, so she definitely survived into his early middle-age. He is an only child. Marc ---