OGDENSBURG WOMEN RELIGIOUS ARE FACILITATORS
(from The Ogdensburg Journal May 20,2012)
Woman in search of her biological parents
INVERNESS, Fla. – Ever since she could remember, Sandra Anne Watson knew she was adopted.
Her
adoptive parents, James and Julia McCray, both deceased, told their
daughter she was chosen from a room full of babies at Catholic
Charities, Ogdensburg, in 1957 when she was just six months old.
“My father said you went in a room and pointed out a child and he or she was yours to take home,” Mrs. Watson said. “There was no adoption process or paperwork like there is now.”
Fifty-five years after her adoption, Mrs. Watson is searching for her birth parents.
“I want to know my family because I want to know my history and health background,” she said.
Mrs.
Watson was raised in Malone. She said she has no current relatives,
except her 24-year-old son, Jacob J. Watson, and would like to know more
about her biological family.
“If my parents were alive, they would be about 80 years old now. I know there’s little chance of finding them, but I know I have siblings,” Mrs. Watson said.
Mrs. Watson said she went to Catholic Charities looking for answers, but the only information Catholic Charities released is the ages and sexes of her siblings at the time of her adoption: two brothers ages 14 and 15, and three sisters, including a pair of twins, ages 8 and 5.
“But there could have been more after me,” she said.
Another
clue to her birth parents came in the form of a piece of paper she once
discovered in her adoptive father’s files. On it was written her
mother’s name, Mary Jean Saber. She said the paper has since been lost
and the spelling of the name might not be accurate.
“I am fairly dark skinned with almost-black hair. My adopted grandmother assumed I was part Indian,” she said. “But I know that there must be others out there who look just like me.”
Mrs. Watson is asking that anyone with information about her adoption contact her at 352-232-2206 or 5230 S. Romans Ave., Inverness, Fla., 34452.
Catholic Charities Executive Vice President Sister Donna Franklin could not be reached last week for additional information.
By Jennifer Ann Kealey Sun., May. 20 at 3:30 pm
Catholic
Charities are wrong if they believe that they alone own the secrets of
the past. Anything involving childbirth which is known by the nuns is
also the property of the children concerned, and that, even if the
mothers were nuns: i.e. a cloister within a cloister within a cloister.
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Catholic
Charities are wrong if they believe that they alone own the secrets of
the past. Anything involving childbirth which is known by the nuns is
also the property of the children concerned, and that, even if the
mothers were artificially inseminated nuns: i.e. a genetic engineering
cloister within a cloister within a cloister.
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By Jennifer Ann Kealey Mon., May. 21 at 5:22 am
Catholic
Charities are wrong if they believe that they alone own the secrets of
the past. Anything involving childbirth which is known by the nuns is
also the property of the children concerned, and that, even if the
mothers were artificially inseminated nuns: i.e. a genetic engineering
cloister within a cloister within a cloister.
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Glen and Jennifer Kealey