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Published: September 10, 2007
Family unlocks years of cultural identity
‘We wanted to find out some answers, we wanted to tell her we loved her'
‘We wanted to find out some answers, we wanted to tell her we loved her'
HOLDENVILLE — It took one phone call to reconnect Ramona Karty to a family and heritage she lost more than 50 years ago.
Karty, 74, of San Diego , spent most of her childhood at the Murrow Indian Orphan's Home near Muskogee , knowing she had a mother who was still alive and siblings who also were at the orphanage, which continues today as a children's home run by Baptist missionaries.
The July phone call, ...
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