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How they started out and, eventually. ended up together is a long storv:wBrinton was adopted by Mildred and Walter Sawin immediately after he was born in 1932 In 1934, the Sawins. who could not have children of their own, adopted Lena, when she was a newborn.Times were hard Sawin went off to CCC Civilian Conservation Corps) camp to support the family While he was away, his wife fell in love with someone else, divorced him and left him with the childrenSawin asked his ex-wife’s brother. Jim Kiehl, and his wife. Fern, to adopt Lena, still an infant. They readily agreed • That, interjected Lena Wood, during an interview in Garden City last week, was when my first adoptive mother became my aunt-by-adoption.The Kiehls also helped care for young Homer Sawin wanted to keep him. but. after a couple of years, he decided he couldn't manage The Kiehls offered to adopt the boy, but Sawin thought they had all they could manage He signed adoption papers making Homer the son of Charles and Maude Brinton of Lakin
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Garden City Telegram
Garden City, Kansas, US
Tue, Sep 16, 1986
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