Show Eared Dog-Eared Postcard Leads Kentuckian To Find Mother Long Believed Dead JACKSONVILLE Fla Nov 10 IFA ff JP A A postal card rubbed card rubbed and worn by 21 years of at handling led handling led Lieutenant Governor Albert B. B Happy Chandler of Kentucky to the mother he believed dead Seeking her grave here herc he found her alive Not oni only did reunion alter after 31 years restore his mother but the discovery revealed to him three new relatives two half brothers Lawrence Fortune Jacksonville constable and William Fortune now in a Savannah Ga hospital hospital hos hos- pital and a sister half-sister Mary Ellen Elten Fortune I can hardly believe it Chandler declared It It couldn't happen happen but but It did added added added add add- ed Lawrence Fortune Between them them each each supplying component component com corn parts that were news to the theother other they other they told the story that found its us happy ending In a 3 mothers mother's and andson's andl sons son's embrace His parents split spIlt by marital differences differences differ dUfer when he was 4 Chandler knew his mother the present Mrs A. A W. W Chamberlin of Jacksonville mostly through two sentences faded and partially partially par par- obliterated by time and wear on the back of ot a postal card sent him when he was 14 God take care of you my ray son it read The card signed simply Mother bore a Jacksonville postmark That was why he so eagerly grasped i the opportunity to come to Jackson Jackson- ville vile with a 1 group of associates on business Then some hunch the hunch the reunited family call It ft Divine guidance caused Chandler to ask a Jacksonville woman whom he had met on his arrival arrival arrival ar ar- ar- ar I rival here if it she knew any Fortunes Chandler had learned the name the mother had taken with remarriage She did Lawrence Fortune was In in- The men sat down and plied each cach other with questions until both were thoroughly convinced of ot rc relationship 11 Then came the problem of how the news was to be broken to the mother the the mother molher who had kept her secret of first marriage for more than a score of years Lawrence Fortune asked her Mother he said he asked her had you been married before you met Father Father Fa Fa- Fa ther She seemed to know instinctively what was corning coming next the son said Questions and answers then came in rapid sequence Chandler was brought to his mother There were more questions questions ques ques- tion and answers which ended in a 1 joyful reunion So today a mother and her son will ride Iride away together and plan the future |