Articles Book III - Pg 1300-1479 (Reunions etc) - triadoption

ny Allcla Armslrong
01 The Journal Strll
"Oh, I've bee11 wolllnE so lor you,"
Amella nrcan snld as she grrctrd her
daughter. Lydln Iturlcy. \vho !\,cnl to
scc hcr last Week.
Until last month. the two hnd not
scen one another lor 75 years. The
daughter Is 75: lhc mothr!r Is At..
The daughter had bcrn put up lor
adoptlon when she was an lnlont.
She had found her molhcr allcr a
search last year.
Lydlr was born in h!llwaukceand
stlll llves here. She has an apanmcnt
. . on the South Slde. Amella, who was
. born In Edgerton, now ilves in the
nurslng home secllon 01 Mcmorinl
. Communlly Rospltal In Edgcrton. .
A few days alter her blrth, Lydla ,
was taken lrom her mother. who
was not marrted. She was plnccd In a
Lutheran children's home and w u
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.'. . .:I .. ).:.'!r -:-L~wm#&t~by~a&olton adopted by Henry and Ellznbeth
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.; .' . ...+ Amella Brean, foregrdund; and her da11ghtet;'Lydla HIfrley ':'..::'r. : Turn lo Reunlon, Page 15 . .
! Rbunlon, From Page 1
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Frlend llid -
Rt~venrted by mrcllnl(
'Junck of Milwaukee when she wua year old. Lydla snld her mother told her all she had been DIC~ Ilennle,one ot Amella's ncphews.sald that
. ,For many years. Lydla dldn't &Ink about trylng born In a prl\.atc hnnlt, that Lydl~ %'as a sickly Amella had bccn njuvenated by finding out that
to tlnd her mother:Thcn, a few ymm ago, she bahy and that Amclln was told the jab!. was belng she had a daughter after all and by mc~tlng her.
declded she would.
. taken loa horpllal. Tlrcn the mothe: wrr told by n "11 really gave hera new lemon llfe, DO to
"I w u thlnklng about It a Iol;" she Mid. "I lrlcnd that her daughlcr had dlcd.
speak," ilennle sald.
thought l'd llke to find out fPp,uj he before I pass "Thcy couldn't gel awny u.llh Ikat !day," Amella Is mostly mnllncd to a whcclchalr us
away." ,.. .....,. I
Lydla sald. "No way."
the result 01 a stroke she sufferfd two years ago.
She dld not expect her motb+rm be ailve still. Lydla also rrld: "Shc was not mmled. and her . At oncpalnt In Ian week'svldt Lydla reached
but she wanted lo learn fill she mid about her famlly may have becn ashamed 01 thnl."
over and rubbed a spat on her mother's lower .
and to know where she wu burled.
Dld Amella's parents arrange lo: the lrlcnd lo dght leu where a akln ulcer had developed but
] At the bednnlng of her.s&b few yearaim? glve her that false mcswgc? No one wl3 ever thenheded.. . ' ,.,:;.. ..
Lydla could flnd nothlnm ?bou(her mother In know, because dl those who couldshed some "ckm Ulat hurt? ~~dld~&ed~~I~wly.
mrds ai lhe Milwaukee Cohaty Courthouse. llgl~t on thls puzde nrc dcad.
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Uqcd to uy yll.
Amella held her daughter sevcnl tlmts In the
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"No:! her molher told her:? '
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bmclla found lhat bhe n?tqn)y hrh s daughter '
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Ilrst tutodays or so alter her blrth, before she was but &atshe alco had four bnnbchllhn. 12 ~ nlgrandchlldrcn
and 3 great.prut~~ndchlldrcn:
.:I She llaveupaen, buta 8mdQughter, Janlcc taken away from hcr. The baby, she once told
;(fawe) mwrdl* kept urgint to try refaltves, had r curl 01 halron tap 01 her hcrd and ~hme mon pul.great.grWcIdjdreo are011 lhb
Then the ~ nndd.u~ht~rfo*~~tl~ye'rlh~t '.;'. Amclip had put a ilttlr plnk ribbon on it.
Lydlarnl[htM helped by conllctlnm Kathleen
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: But then. for 75 )'cars. Amella thought that her
' Sweeney, adoptfon search cmrdltutor of the
"oh, boy;' AmeUa add.
daughter - Iheanly chlld she ever had - was
Mvlrlon of.Communlty Servlm. Wlxonsln, i,f :,..
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dead.
Lydla,Uld: ' n t just g v !OL$3~,wc'm ' '
epartmenl of Heallh and SodaIServl~!~~.
~etllng ?Id?> ,:.'
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Lydia's sirlt wlth her mother Iul week was her
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Lydia conbcted Sweeney. md she mcelvcd a
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th~rd. she sald that she would 11kr to see ~ m e ~ ~ a :' ' Pmud or &w~a., ...:
call fmm her tllortl~ before Molher'g Day on May ~ O Ioften, C but that she dldn't hayc a car and her When Lydla ar~Iveh at thq'udng home ' '
: 13 thls yru. .., ': chlldrcn were not always available to tnke her to week, Amella pmudly (old ? ns@LhenU~.'
: he ~ld,'-you dtun~ d&i?'" L Y ~ I UJ~. ~ . EdgcHon.
"This 1, my aughtcrlw
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"Thcd she lold me, 'We have founp your :
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Lydln rsld she had Iound lf~nt she and her Lydiatold her mother thaf &,,d$idd she
' mother.'"
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mother shslcd a lot ol lnteresu.
Lydla wu ttunned. Iiermolhnl ,.; After all tho*. -we both like cnls blnRo jewelry,"
years.
Lydln snld. "I also found out thnt she had a
I in a ru~queat
letter. Swency told L Y ~ that I ~ .hysltrectomy when she wns 32. w t Ulata . .
her mother wu
"very wlllln(!orha= her IdenUtY colncldence. I also had a hyslereclomy when I wa,
and to havCconlact wllh ym.,,,.. 32."
;! "For i whole week Uler 1 fwd out I hid..; :,
, Uouble slcepln#."'Lydti uld :'l Look half 1 .,
sleepln8 plll every nlmhl." .' ;;1<
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,.: Thea.onMay I8,Lydlr. whotiawIdow,md~
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one of hk &u[hter~,dmve.? Edp* lo Fe h~
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*She&fed when we met.' Lybla uld." :; '
thq.(.ILed abut WM.
up l~+optlon;?.;;,.:,, .
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