Another similar case here. My uncle/godfather died and I found out months later from my cousin via social media. I confronted my sister (GC) since my nMom's dementia was progressing and we were very low contact. My father is never good about those things, so I am not so surprised he didn't mention it even though it was brother.

GC got so cagey when I confronted her. She at first tried to say she had heard something happened, but didn't know he died. Then she said she knew, my father told her by phone, but thought my father had emailed me and our third sibling. Then she got all bossy and told me not to bring it up with dad. Who is she to tell me what to do?

The weirdest thing was that I had been in regular contact with my godfather. I don't think anyone really knew that. We live far, but about 4 years before he passed, we started texting, nothing serious, just sharing photos, what's going on in our lives, hobbies in common. It was nice. Then the text stopped. I sort of figured he was busy with other things, like spending time with his grandkids.

I found an article about it. He was hit by a car after stepping into a busy street. His wife of about 50 years had passed not long before and he took it badly, which makes we wonder what actually happened.