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Show 1998 1919, page The Dixie Sun 3 P ' i EATURES oir em & for last- - iet-- :hrel c Features Editor: Jennie Squire hmf Mother found after 52 years 4V I's urazi fie av Gec cms X'eivfst Bkdls 1 DAY. May 28. 998 Shaquel Andrus & Jim Cannon S ATU R DAY. May 30. 1998 Thurs s Heather Elliott & Clay Bloxham Kristal Hobson & John Beckstrand T HURSDAY. J M N IS 4. .1 99.S. Xicole Clayton & Andrew Nielson June 6. 1908 Saturday. Rodet & Brenton Scott Hillary Keith Marcus Lovett Kristin Webb & D. Brvcc Alldredge Alicia Rena 'Thomas &; &S I I II I1 IN SERVICE EASYto PHONEGrooms Simply cals 7 Sr,de & Registry - any ana cnarge any amount to your Isoc'evaro Account 673-965- 7 p'onnro 14351 1 1 & BOULEVARD 170 Life just isn't the same, when at a young age you find out your life has been a "lie." point, because"! never fit." booth 3r th( CacrxTaLuij.vs to th:. mother. Seipp said everything was beginning to make sense at that Dixie College information Edie secretary, Seipp, discovered while she was in high school that her life as she had known it wasn't exactly true. Seipp began to unravel the mystery of who her birth mother was. List Price: $334 Our Price: $223 946 Tfttn&el TftlttsL. Tfaileott e leai By Billy Vosburg Assistant Editor In January, 1945, a young woman, from Rock Springs, Wyo., gave birth to Seipp, only to give her to another family soon after the birth. "I was basically purchased," Seipp said, "because the family who adopted me was too old to go through a regular adoption agency." When Seipp discovered what had happened, while she was in seventh grade, she kept it to herself. "All of a sudden, my life was a lie," Seipp said. Her senior year in high school is when she revealed what she knew in an essay on her life history, written for her senior history class. According to Seipp, when her parents read this essay, they shredded any information that would help her find her biological Unfortunately, her adoptparents knew who her biological ing. However, Seipp parents were, but "All of a sudden, found a Green River refused to let Seipp my life was a lie." in on their secret. High School yearbook from the 1942-4- 3 It was 34 Edie Seipp school year. She years later, in 1997, looked at the when Seipp began . . seniors' names looking for her biolooked Her atthejumors'and adopted nothing. logical mother again. parents had both died, and she felt a sophomores' names. . . still nothing. And finally, looked at the freshstrong need to find her. All she men's names, and didn't see the knew at this time was a last name: name. Then, just when had almost Kruse. Seipp was in Green River, given up, moved my thumb so Wyo., burying her adopted mother, could close the book; when when she decided to search a little. noticed it. . . the last name on the While in the cemetery, looked at page. It wouldn't fit on the line Seipp and her daughter it. It was the name had been in above the headstone They place. every found only one. It was a small one, looking for." and seemed to be hidden in the corSeipp called around, and ner of the cemetery. finally tracked down Izora Hodge, an elderly woman with Alzheimer's She proceeded to the local disease. look at to her with daughter, library the archived newspapers. She was Seipp asked Hodge how contact Verline Kruse, could she this for one obituaries the at looking name. All of a sudden, according to Seipp's biological mother. Hodge Seipp, she stopped pushing on the told her she didn't go by Kruse anybutton that turned the pages. The more. Her last name was Rice at that point. Hodge proceeded to obituary of the person she was looking for was on the screen; the baby give Seipp the telephone number. "Then she asked me, 'Can ask who's boy she was looking for. However, it didn't list calling7' So, told her my story." Next, Seipp called Verline any parents' ed -- I I I I I I I I East St. George Boulevard St. George, Utah 84770 names, so "it wasn't help," said. any Seipp Seipp her daughter were and Devon Pilarowski Editor-in-Chi-ef AssistantNews Editor Billy Vosburg nion Editor John Wadley A & E Editor Chaundra Stewart frts Editor Loni Johnston Features Editor Jennie Squire Ad preservative Hollie Stark Staff Writers Raelynne Loudon, Courtney ftsmen, Nathan Dosier, Computer Technologist JeffPectol Faculty Jvisor Loren Webb r is distributed each Tuesday during Fall, Winter and Spring quar-and Letters of Arts, Division a publication of Dixie College, its editorial on the aaices, and Dixie College Student Activities. 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She went over to the rack with the yearbooks on it from that time, and discovered the yearbook from 1945 was miss- - BILLY VOSBURGTHE DIXIE bUN preparing to leave, when Seipp got the idea to look at the old high school year- books from Edie Seipp, 53, found her birth mother one year 1945 because ago. " "Peggy" Rice, Seipp's biological mother, in Portland, Ore. After 52 years of not knowing who gave birth to her, Seipp finally knew. Her "new" family held a family reunion in Bunkerville, Nev. While in attendance, Seipp felt "so comfortable." "It finding my mother made peace with my life, because I needed to know these people; they're my family," Seipp said. She then explained, "You've heard: 'environment shapes you, makes you who you are. . .' that's not true; heredity is what really shapes you!" Classified Ads Nannys wanted: For exciting East Coast job. 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