Family unlocks years of cultural identity
‘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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