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'f t wWf r©M© I l W a x I' V t 'f'V ' r M i TV! i :)WT 1 : ill 0 hi'iVi POi I VjU Uw-- half-broth- er ' i- - i later the reunion took Dltct teari At ih folded her III UIM"" 4Ta r long-lo- t-- lotu ut HlMIMCIiiIl " wa - -- p ( i i - - prayed to Cod that you were i i — good Then she told him how sh had lowed his career from afar ever inci their sena ration Shit told him how that If-' ' a a I ii t i hAd hpard fit his hrAlhf r t math nri t i how the had sent him a postcard l and it he to her delight revealed that he had kept the postcard through all the years I! incc d He explained too that he had ' she that was dead and for (hat b reason had not followed his original pian oi nnaing ner years ago I hen he was introduced to the other i I 4 ?— 1WMI' uicwiucis oi ncr f' wHiiam ana 5 iamuyi' Mary Ellen Fortune a brother and f sister of whose very existence he had f T 1 been ignorant t -- ina Leut Gov "Happy" Chandler or Kentucky is happy indeed after the n Florida reunion with the parent he thought ' had been dead for ten years hi- y r- ' - K- - - - fjp-hear- Js -- JL stranger-than-fictio- nrHIRTY-ON- ' - :v vi f "1 Li 2i E r simplest way to tell the story is to go back 31 years to 'ts beginning Lieutenant Governor Chandler's parents When the were living then in Corydonj Ky future lieutenant governor was just four they came to the parting o the ways After the divorce young Albert Chandler and his little brother stayed in Corydon with their father Mrs Chandler wefit to Indiana and a little later moved south to Florida In the course of time Mrs Chandler remarried becoming the wife of Walter Fortune by whom she had three children— -- two sons Law rence and William and a daughter Mary Then Walter Fortune was drowned Ellen Sometime later the widow married agaih her third husband being A W Chambcrlin a Florida business man He died several years ago Meanwhile the two Chandler children were growing up in Kentucky Young Albert Chandler retained only a vague memory of his i J A LARS ap-paren- tly HPHE wi rr A photograph taken at the reunion in Jacksonville At the left is Lieut Cov Albert B Chandler of Kentucky rvith about the mother he arm had not seen for 31 years With them are his half sister and half brother Mary Ellen Fortune' and Latvrcnce Fortune - 4 'wns "Happy" Chandler sang for his mother with the clear tenor voice that had delighted his college mates so much—and brought new tears of joy years ago a Ken- tuckian and hUiwifc agreed formally lo disagree Having mad ihq dis- covery that they just couldn't get alonj? they separated got a divoice and each of other's dropped out light The father — the children two kept boys one four years of The mother went to age the other just two When her sons grew Florida remarried up they heard that shs was dead But just the other day the older of these two sons' now a grown man a rising politician in his native state learned that his molher was really alive He sought her out at once met her — and t they had just the kind of happy and tearful reunion that you might expect of a mother and on who had not seen one another for more than a quarter of a century The ion Is Lieut Gov Albert D Chandler of Kentucky famous throughout his state at "Happy" Chandler a "leader in tax reform movements and a youthful officeholder who has a brilliant career ahead of him The mother is Mrs A W Chambcrlin of Jacksonville Flat who has followed her son's fortunes from afar and who has yearned for the reunion over many years Their meeting came about by accident reIt would not have hapcently in Jacksonville pened at all probably if business matters had hot happened to take Lieutenant Governor Chandler to Florida for a brief trip 'OaMMt Ufi 1 Gov Dave Sholtz of Florida on niom the Kentucky lieutenant governor and his mother called immediately after their :' reunion j v mother much ' ' j - L ji A child of four doesn't remember Albert knew that his mother was gone and he missed her but he could not rejmember her very clearly 4 '! ' Once in the years of separation he Heard from her i t His younger brother Robert fell from a The mother far off in tree and was killed Florida heard of the tragedy She wrote Albert a postcaid expressing her grief and signing herself "Molher" ( This was the only word that passed between the two in all those years It seems to have filled some kind of empty spot in j Albert Chandler's heart he kept the card and he still has it — one of his most cherished possessions 1 ' i '' I i passed and Albert grew out of childhood to young manhood He went to Transylvania College in Ken tucky working his way through winning popu-- l larity and the nickname of "Hlappy" whiclt has stuck to him ever since One element in his popularity wa his excellent tenor voice! Fellow students recall that lie often sang in" public in his college days and relate that the college football team frequently took him along on its trips to play ther teams because the players liked to hear him sing Graduating from Transylvania! at last Chan dler went on to Harvard University Law School Winning his degree at that institu-- ! tion he returned to his native state settled in the Kentucky town of Versailles and began the j practice of law It was not long before he began to make his mark His practice flourished He mar-- ! ried and became the father of four children1 The popularity which had clung jto him in col4 lege was still with him and his friends induced hira to enter politics There he began a steady' climb up the lad-- j der— a climb his friends insist which is by no means finished He served is state senaj tor and from that point went on to becoraq lieutenant governor He has distinguished him-- j self as an advocate of tax reformj — a live issue in Kentucky these days as in all the other5 ' states in v' As Chandler grew up he often thought about his mother and when he reached manhood he made up his mind to find her j ! the-union- from a simple probably ardT misunderstanding — told him that his mother was dead It was no use to hunt for her t now Some day when he was i able to go to Florida he would look up her he could find her grave history and-e- Lf Meanwhile-well he had his work to do and his mother was gone forever So he devoted himself to his career cherished the lone postcard which was almost his sole link with his mother and gave up his dream Not long ago some business associates had occasion to make a trip to Jacksonville They called up Lieutenant Governor Chandler and urged him to go with them pointing out that the trip would make a pleasant little vacation d for a state official "The lieutenant governor accepted their inviIt would be a vacation — and tation at once he would have the chance to make inquiries about his mother's life and to look for her grave So he went to Jacksonville ' On their arrival in Jacksonville the Ken- tuckians were entertained by one of the city's Lieutenant Governor Chanleading lamfles dler inquired of his host if he knew anyone by the name of Fortune A few more inquiries and he was brought face to face with a Jacksonville constable Lawrence Fortune — his own — " hard-worke- half-broth- I er ': ! - 'A ND then an inexplicable accident barred ' ' the way About 10 years ago he met a relative who1 —for some reason that is not clear but which iCopyriabt 19 J4 r Tr?rWlclIaslo) j j from Fortune he received the amazing news that his mother was very" much alive AND and was living only a few blocks away The lieutenant governor was cot quite certain just how his mother would react to a meetIt might seem to son ing with her long-loher that he had been careless and forgetful in making no effort to get in touch with her after st i It ras 31' years ago that Mrs Chcu -- dler said goodby to her djo little boys end vent out of their lives fir ? Lieutenant Governor Chandler couldn't stay But before he went back to in Florida long Kentucky Jbe had a chance to show his mother what it means jto a Woman to have a distinguished son During his stay in Florida he was to make an official call on the governor of the state So to the governor's mansion in Tallahassee "Happy" Chandler took his mother where she was received With all honors due the mother of a leading official of a sister state And when lieutenant Governor Chandler went back to Kentucky he took his mother back with him There she got a new surprise and a new joy Not only was she able to see her son la his own home to see the place he had made for' himself in his own community and to rejoice in the honors which his fellow citizens had him— She met: for the first time the four grandchildren she hadn't known about Lieutenant Governor Chandler's four healthy children : - 1 J f 1 ' 0 niiiniiiM ! I IS 'r I niim: :nu -- il i h - 0 put-upo- I C-iiioiiiii- i r ' |