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Return Ofi(Continued from Page One)licity be given her homecoming saying that she had lead a normal life and following the death of her husband, had simply come back home. However, her mind began to wander as she stated [that she had come back because she knew that drillings in the garden of her former home in Harmony had revealed a vast deposit of oil. The former John Leonhardt property had been sold many years ago.The strange return of Mrs. Wright explains a telegram received at the Western Union office here. It was directed to a “Mrs. Schnegle” in care of Eugene Holliday. Mr. Holliday, former shoe merchant, and a friend of the former Miss Leonhardt, died about 36 years ago. Mr. Bennett of the Western Union station took the telegram to Mrs. Mary Holliday, 1205 E. Church Street, widow of Eugene, but the name Mrs Wright on the dispatch did not strike a familiar note with her. The telegram could not be delivered. Later Mrs. Wright told The Times man that her sister, a Mrs. Schnegle, lived in Terre Haute. She had requested a sizeable sum so that she could come home. Miller and Sons, funeral directors, responded to a request from The Times to find the date they had conducted the funeral of Lora’s father, John, at Harmony. The Brazil Times of that date, Sept. 17, 1942, revealed the names of two surviving children, Mrs. OakRuddell, of Terre Haute, and Charles, who used the original family name of McLeonhardt, a printer, of Richmond.Her name was not listed among the survivors in the obituaries of either her father or her mother. Thus concludes a chapter in one of the strangest stories in the history of Brazil.The name of Mrs. Oak Ruddell was found in a Terre Haute telephone directory and she was called by Mr. James of The Times and told that her sister had reappeared in Brazil.“I just can’t belive it,” Mrs. Ruddell exclaimed.Mrs. Ruddell was in Brazil in a few minutes and met her sister at the hoteL Lora did not recognize her elder sister, but their conversation soon revealed their family relationship. Lora’s effects were loaded in Mrs. Ruddell’s car and she was taken to the latter’s home in Terre Haute.In the meantime Lora had called at the Times office and asked to see “any of the Raper boys.” Ted R. Raper, business manager, was out at the time. In Lora's time there were three Raper brothers here.What will happen to Mrs. Wright, of course, would be conjecture. There is evidence that she is a victim of a mental sickness, affecting her at times, which may make her care a problem.The news of Lora’s return traveled fast Friday evening and was the general topic of conversation down town yesterday. The story was broadcast over television last evening, resulting in more calls for additional information from Brazil and Harmony folks who remembered the woman as a newspaper reporter. The story was carried nationally today over the two big press associations.agslt;aolinAftLPHslt;fiEtls]VcpwUP1!ggSkO!wy7hsiaahlitlai0siPao
Newspaper Details
Brazil Daily Times
Brazil, Indiana, US
Sat, Apr 24, 1965
Page 2
Full Page
Clipped by
Oak P.
IL, USA 25 Feb 2021
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