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way to describe how happy he was to see them again ... you can't explain what it's meant to him.”Sawin had remarried but he and his second wife had no children To find Lena. Mary looked for Kiehls in Garden Citv. From anwAustin Kiehl here, she learned that Jim and Fern Kiehl had moved to Seattle Once she contacted them finding Lena was a cinch.Almost immdiately after they got in touch with Lena, the Brintons flew to Seattle to see her. her husbandand their familv. ‘‘They (Lena and* •Homer) hadn't seen one another — that they were aware of — in 46 years, Mary said last week Since then. the\ ve been in close touch and have been together several times. But last week's visit to Southwest Kansas was a significant occasion.“It s been interesting for Loren and me to listen to these two ... thev say ‘I’ve been there' and ‘I remember that' as we drive around hearing them remember one familiar place after another where they lived, where they went (a roller skating rink, for one place . As close as Lakin and Garden Citv are the chances are good that they could have been in the same place at the same time when they wereVyoung and didn't know it.”After all these years. I think this is great.” Loren Wood said Lena lived in Garden City off and on” until 1959 and has been in touch with the town, but Brinton has not been back I didn't find anvone I knew in Lakin,” he said. I looked in the phone book and didn't even seehad a child who was a dwarf, and she wanted to get genetic information Brinton, too, knows that his natural mother lives in Los .Angeles. Their first adoptive mother, Mildred Sawin Jones, lives in Little Rock. ArkWhen Lena married Loren Woodin 1964. they put their children from former marriages together, “hers”and his, and came up with a total of nineIt was easier because of the wavwI was brought up, Lena said. I was used to taking in kids Her husband agreed she had done a good job of rearing them, showing no preferences or distinction Four of hers were the same ages as four of his.Lena spoke fondly of her second adoptive parents. She said the Kiehls had two children of their own. adopted her and then took in and raised others as foster children They raised 12 children in all,” Lena saidWith that crowd to grow up in. she continued to remember the brother” she once hadHomer and Marv Brinton have two children and four grandchildren.But of all the relatives they've accumulated through the years. Lena Wood and Homer Bnnton have a special feeling for the relationship they shared the first time they were adopted.CRI PPKR ASSOCIATESiliar nMpntal Hpalth
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Garden City Telegram
Garden City, Kansas, US
Tue, Sep 16, 1986
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