The Fifth and Final Name: Memoir of an American Churchill by Noonan Rhonda

Author:Noonan, Rhonda [Noonan, Rhonda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: President Truman, closed adoption, Randolph Churchill, Harry S. Truman, adoptive family, Noonan, Oklahoma, Avarell Harriman, Rhonda Noonan, adoptee, fortune, adoption, birth parent, family history, clairvoyant, Churchill family, Winston Churchill, memoir, FBI
Publisher: Chumbolly Press
Published: 2013-03-07T00:00:00+00:00

“It is no use saying ‘we are doing our

best.’ You have got to succeed

in doing what is necessary.”

Winston Churchill

9

“Uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information”

About six months prior to leaving Colorado, I phoned Debra Goodman, the new head of the Reunion Registry, and requested a search for my biological father.

She pulled out my case and said, “I don’t want to discourage you, but this would be like finding a needle in a haystack. We have very little to go on, and it’s a very common name in a very big city.”

I didn’t ask her where she got the name, I just requested their best searcher, and she assured me I would get exactly that and that they would be looking in the northeast.

After several weeks she called to say they had “a list of the top six possibilities but no one who is definite.” She said they had phoned about seventy-five people with the name they had, and that the searcher had been working hard on it. That was in November 2004.

Margaret Daniel took over the case as the new head of the intermediary program. She agreed to look my birthmother up every six months to make sure she was still alive. If she died, I would be able to connect with my half-sisters—because the legal issue of “privacy” doesn’t extend to the grave.

I phoned Margaret in early July to ask her to check on my biological mom again. About a week passed and she phoned to say she was still alive, was living with one of my half-sisters, and seemed to be doing well. (I don’t know how she could know that, if all she was doing was checking the Social Security death index. Perhaps it was just an assumption because my mother had been ill—the first time the intermediary had found her, she had some health problems—and was still alive.)

Margaret also said that the man they believed to be my biological father had called the intermediary and was going to call back, further explaining that he seemed “paranoid” about what I wanted, and asked several times if I had found or talked to my biological mom yet. She said he clearly stated that he did not want to go on with contact if I had found and/or contacted my biological mother.

She said he was supposed to call back. The following morning Margaret phoned and asked for the number at which I wanted him to call me, and about thirty minutes later a man phoned my house.

His name was Robert Ray Schultz, of New Braunfels, Texas (just outside of Greene, where he actually lived). He told me he was 5’11” tall and 180 pounds (exactly what was in my non-identifying information); that he worked as a border patrol agent for the government, and traveled a lot. He was of German/Dutch ancestry; both his parents lived into their late eighties. He had been widowed twice (his first wife was more than twenty years his junior; his second was an educational leader in Nebraska, and died during a surgery in 1997).

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