Trusts & Estates
Missing Lawyer and Her Husband Are Declared Dead
Posted Nov 3, 2009, 04:06 pm CST
By Martha Neil
A Savannah lawyer and her husband have been declared dead by a Georgia judge, more than a year after they disappeared following a meeting with a bookkeeper they suspected of stealing from them.
A memorial service for Elizabeth Calvert, 45, and her husband John, 47, is planned later this month. Late last month, a DeKalb County judge ruled that the couple is dead, reports the Island Packet. Elizabeth Calvert practiced as a tax attorney at HunterMacLean in Savannah.
The individual the couple suspected of stealing from them, Dennis Ray Gerwing, 54, was considered a person of interest in their March 2008 disappearance. He committed suicide approximately one week after the Calverts' disappearance.
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