That leads to an interesting story, as you'd expect.
Classmates.com is not the only website devoted to keeping track of high school classes. There are a couple of others, even if they aren't as popular. One of them is called "Old Friends." You can find it by going here.
We stumbled on it while doing a search, and saw that a "Beth Burton" was reported as deceased on Oct. 20, 2013. After searching through the class database we have, we saw that this was Beth Hutchinson Burton.
It took a little while, but we discovered that she is still on Facebook - posting away. It's fair to say that reports of her demise have been exaggerated.
Welcome back to the world of living, Beth. If someone is in touch with her, pass the word along.
You might want to take a look at the site, if only to see the messages. Budd received one that read, "I don't know if you'll get this but I've looking for you for years." There was no name attached, deepening the mystery.
