Thanks for letting us know, Mary-Anne. I had quite a bit of correspondence with him a couple of years ago, and I know he had extensive heart surgery (7-way bypass, as I recall), but thought he'd completely recovered. Gardeners and seed savers will be the poorer for his passing. Margaret Lauterbach >Chuck Wyatt passed on yesterday. He had been ill for quite some >time. His business will continue with his wife and a gal that has been >filling the orders taking care of it all. > >That is two Tomato folks gone in the past 2 months. > >Dr. Rick just up the road from me in Davis. > >http://tgrc.ucdavis.edu/ > >Mary-Anne >USDA Zone 9b >Sunset 14/15 > >"Who plants the seed beneath the sod, and waits to see, believes in God."