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On their way to rejoin their
mother after they had been * lost”
for 2 years, a little boy and girl,
herded to the plane by Public
Health Nurse Marion Curtis,
left Kodiak Wednesday for Hom
er where their mother will meet
them and take them home with
her to Seldovia.
j It will be a doubly big day for
their mother, Mrs. O. P Rees,
who came to Kodiak before last
Christmas with the hope of
meeting her children here, only
to be disappointed and have to
return to her home without them,
but with the kaowlfcdge they
would join her later.
The story of the mother’s fran
tic search for her lost children is
a strange one, and goes back al
most 2 yeais, when she lived
near Anchorage.
At that time she had family
difficulties that necessitated her
plaeing four of her young child
ren in the care of others, until
she could make arrangements to
take care of them herself She
divorced the children’s father
and later, having remarried and
having a home for them, went to
get them back.
Two of the children, cared for
in a privafe home, she obtained,
but when she went to get the
other two she ran into a blank
wall. It developed that an Indian
Service official had taken the two
to an unknown place to be cared
for, and the records failed to re
veal where tnat place was.
The official had left the gov
ernment department and all ef
forts to locate him failed. Rec
ords were searched, and finally a
ciue was discovered that pointed
to them having been brought to
Kodiak
The first wire to Kodiak that
started the search locally was
garbled in transmission, and all
local records were gone through
for a trace of the little boy and
girl, Alledore, now 5, and Sophie,
now 3 The wire gave the last
name as “ Eric”, which was in
correct. When the error was dis
covered the records were sea ch
ed again, and officials and every
one m he vicinity who might
know something about the mis
sing children were questioned.
Inquiries were also made in other
neighboring villages, but nothing
was learned.
A long time liter Kodiak’s
Health Nurse Marion Curtis,
who after many months still had
the children in mind, was talking
here with Mr. and Mrs Arthur
Hudson, former school teacher’s
of Old Harbor, a small, isolated
village (archer south on Kodiak
island.
For some reason she thought
of the children and asked, “Did
Mr. Blank (naming the Indian
Servi e official) ever leave a
couple children at Old Harbor?”
And the Hudson’s recalled that
he had The official had arrived
there in a plane, asked a family
to take care of the ehildren, say
ing he’d be back later, and neg
lected to give the last name ef
the ehildren before he left, never
to be seen there again.
Miss Curtis checked and dis
covered that the children were
indeed there, being well taken
care of by Mr. and Mrs. Timothy
Shadula, who had learned to love
their two charges and said they
wanted to adopt them. She then
contacted the mother who im
mediately made arrangements to
come to Kodiak, arriving here
before Christmas and taking up
her vigil in the Sunbeam hotel,
while she waited for the children
to be brought in on Robert von
Soheele’ mail boat. Just before
Christmas the boat arrived, but
without the children. With no
arrangements made for someene
to take care of them and with no
one aboard who could, Mr. von
Scheele could not bring them on
that trip.
The anther left by the next
plane after making further ar
rangements, and last Sunday the
twj cleanly scrubbed and neatly
dressed children did finally ar
rive in Kodiak.
Nur-e Curtis took care of them
until Wednesday’s plan", treat
ing them to the first ice cream
they had ever tasted, which they
made a mess of eating, and also
initiated them into their first
view and use of a real bathtub.
Sophie cried at first, but after
being in it a moment without
any damage, decided it was great
fun.
Both were excited over their
“first plane trip”. (They had
down to Old Harbor, of course,
but were too young to remember
it.)
As they d> parted on the plane
Wednesday, the Kodiak part of
the unusual story ends. But the
real and happy ending took place
at Homer when their inothar
met them after »1 her waiting.
And that ending we leave to
your imagination.
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