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Reunion / Questions askedFROM PAGE Cl ____Over the reunion weekend, Schreck asked Joe if he’d talked to his dauRhter lately. He said no. Schreck said she knew his daughter and asked If he wanted her phone number.The next day, Joe had his wife, Betty, call Sandy.He had Betty call me and ask if 1 wanted to see him, she said.Before they met, father and daughter spent some time communicating by e-mail.“I (old him about my childhood and what I’d done. she said. “He very graciously answered my questions.”Joe (old her he tried to see her before ho left for basic training with the Army but had been told that sho and her mother were in California. After that, he wanted to talk to her, but he thought it was better nor to disturb her life.By the time we met, the air was cleared,’' she said. “It made our meeting much easier.Afraid of rejectionSandy said she was excited to know she had a half brother.Mick didn’t have the same reaction when he found out Sandy knew about him. He'd grown up traveling across the country with his father and mother in the military life. Like his father, he stayed away from his half family, afraid he’d he rejected by Sandy and her family, now made up of a husband, throe sons and two grandchildren.“Oh gosh, here's some more family up there that I may not want to see. They're stable ... and 1 was raised an Army brat, he said.But that changed when they met after their 95-yearold grandmother. Hazel Minnerly, died in January at St. 1'atrtck.“I sow her, and it was just like falling in love across the room,” Mick said. When I was growing up I always wanted a sibling ... after wc sat and talked, it was just amazing. It was like my life became complete. Before, there was always something miss.ng.“There’s been a lot of tears, and we’ve laughed, talked and criedSandy said.About the future?While Sandy has met Mick's | sons, the whole family will have the opportunity to meet this summer at a family reunion planned In Kahoka, Mo.Sandy would like for Mick to move near her home in Iowa. While he's considering it, lie said he has a hard time coping with cold weather since he broke several bones in a motorcycle accident 14 years ago. For his part. Mick would like Sandy and her husband to put down roots in Salina.For new, they'll enjoy their time together and accept things one day at a time, Sandy said.• Reporter Carta Strand can be reached at H23-G464, Ext. 159. or by e-mail at sjcslrand@ sajournal.com.
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Salina Journal
Salina, Kansas, US
Sat, Apr 29, 2000
Page 12
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Salina P.
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