Sonny know as Butch to his family was my cousin. And sad to say yes he has passed. His father died and we tried to call Sonny to let him know and we could not get in touch with him. My daughter and myself went to his home and could not get an answer to the door. His car was in the driveway and I talked to the neighbors, they had not seen him in several days. Not to speak bad of the dead, but he had a bad drinking problem and we thought he was passed out and didn't hear us, it was not unsual not to hear from him for several weeks at a time when he was drinking, and again I am not speaking bad of him, this is just how it was. I called my sisters and they came over and when we tried again to get into the home we smelled and odor coming from inside and made the decision to call the police. We had to break in and sorry to say that we did find him, he had been dead for one to two weeks. We still do not know how he died, but they did tell us that it look like it was from natural causes. When we found him it appeared that he had laid down on the sofa and went to sleep.
After reading all of your concers about him, I felt that you would want to know for sure, and it is nice to know that he was doing something that seemed to be helping so many people.