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Mother, son reunited after
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38-year separation
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By BRENDA HEATHCOCK “It’s a miracle.”
At least that is what Doris Casanova calls her recent eunion with her son Frank,
after a separation of 38 years.
“It seems like a dream come true,” she said through tears.
)oris Casanova and son. Frank Easley, together for he first time since 1948
SUNDAY. OCTOBER 19, 1986-1B
Mrs. Casanova of Bay St. Louis and her son Frank of Herrman, Tenn. met Wednesday for the first time; since 1948 when she was forced due to an extensive illness to put Frank in her father’s care.
At that time Mrs. Casanova, recently divorced and ill, also agreed to give her father, James Knight, legal guardianship for one-year-old Frank and his two-year-old sister Beverly.
“I agreed because I thought he was going to keep both of the children together,” she said.
Unknown to Mrs.
Casanova, her father and stepmother allowed a childless couple to adopt Frank.
“I have been searching for the last 38 years for my son,” Mrs. Casanova said.
Several times during her search for Frank, Mrs. Cassanova said she would get close only to have every source of information close
According to Mrs. Casanova, she has spent thousands of dollars in the past 38 years trying to locate Frank.
Mrs. Casanova’s only
up.
“It was like continually walking into a brick wall, no one would tell me how to find Frank,” she added.
Mrs. Casanova said the adoptive parents were relatives of her stepmother and would not let Frank see his natural mother.
“They were so enthusiatic over having a child and were afraid he would want to be with me if he saw me,” she said.
Mrs. Casanova regained guardianship of Beverly a couple of years after the initial separation.
clues were the last name of the adoptive parents and the fact that he was still called Frank.
Recently while visiting an elderly aunt in Texas, Mrs. Casanova was able to learn the location of Frank’s adoptive parents.
During a stopover in
-	Houston, Texas, Mrs.
-	Casanova’s daughter-in-law ;Ann began calling all the numbers for persons with Frank’s adoptive father’s name in the Houston s "b where he was supposedly living.
Mrs. Casanova said she was glad Ann didn’t listen when she told her to stop wasting so much money on phone calls.
The phone calls paid off and Ann was able to locate Frank’s adoptive father who “readily supplied Frank’s phone number in Tennessee.”
Immediately following their return to Bay St.
Louis, Ann had her husband, Joe Casanova, one of four children from Mrs. Casanova’s second marriage, call his half-brother.
“Shock and unbelief” were the reactions of Frank Easley upon learning th° that his natural motht id sister were alive and wanted to see him.