Red Cross Letter

   Hello, You don’t know me but you have haunted me since I was a little girl. I’m 27 years old now. I’m your sister Cynthia Susanne Beene/Huffman and I still think of you often and wonder if you are well and happy or even still living. I’ve been looking for the last 12 years for information to help find you and I’m not sure this letter will ever find you. I’ve put ads in papers in Temple Texas and other towns around there. I’ve asked people who might have known your mother Frances. But I haven’t had much luck.

   Our father would speak of you to me and on holidays he would get quite and sad and sometimes I’d find him looking at your picture. Dad passed away July 5, 1990 and I miss him so much, for he and I were very close. He use to take me to work with him and he would teach me to run a bulldozer. I was the tomboy of the family, it seemed like he was teaching me the things that he couldn’t teach you Barry.

   Barry when your mother and our father devoiced she left with you and daddy didn’t know where to find you. Our father had a lot of faults but he was a good man and he loved you. Daddy didn’t talk a lot about his feelings, but we always knew how he missed you. Dad was in the hospital a month before he finally died. He suffered so much. You also have another three sisters and one brother James, Sharon, Garla and Linda. James and Sharon really weren’t daddy’s children but Dad loved them and raised them as his own.

   I have contacted the Air force to find out if they know your last where-abouts. Barry, all I know is you were born in May 1949 and were in the Air Force, and you may have went to England for a while and you are a pilot, and your step-fathers name was Brock. Barry I would very much like to meet you and get to know you.

   I have a picture I carry around with me, and two of you with Daddy, and one of you with your mom. The last three were made in 1952 and I have one of you on a pony. You were wearing a cowboy hat.

   Sometimes I find myself looking for you in a crowed place, hoping you are there and will meet one day. Barry if this letter does find it’s way to you, please let me know. My biggest fear is you won’t want to meet me.

   I live in Maryville, Tennessee, 14 miles from Knoxville, Tennessee. I don’t have a home phone, but here is a friends next door. She will come and get me. I do private nursing so I’m home most evenings. Please Lord let this letter find you Barry for I love you.

                   Your Sister Susanne

Susanne Huffman
919 Laurie
Maryville, TN 37801