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After 53 years I found my birth Father but to late it seems. I have a new brother!
I started doing genealogy in 1997 by doing my step fathers [he raised me] family. Then I started working on my mothers side of the family tree. After doing all I could do with her lines I realized that mine wasn't complete & wouldn't be until I found my birth father. Wendell George Drury.
In Jan 2000 I began in earnest to find my birth father whom I don't remember, since I was 1 1/2 yrs old when my mother
divorced him. So I asked my cousins husband who is a insurance investigator if he could help & he found this in Jan 2000
the town & address in CO. At the time I didn't think it was right, but have since found out that it was his last residence.
He died in 1994 in Colorado.
Wendell G. DRURY
1639 Beeler Street, 104, Aurora, Colorado, 80010-
SSAN: 493-18-3611 Issued in Missouri between 1936 and 1951
PO Box 2054, Oxnard, California, 93034
Relatives:
Mark B Drury
aka: MB Drury
PO Box 2054, Oxnard, California, 93034
240 E Maple, Oxnard, Ca. 93030
Beverley A Drury
Same as above
After receiving this in I went to the SSI Death index on the net & found my grandfather Paul Drury, sent for his application which included his parents names, then went to the LDS library in Santa Monica CA, found the whole family in the 1900 & 1920 census of Rice county Kansas. Finally with the use of the LDS web search I found my grgrgrand father & his ancesters back to 1616 England.
On Sept 4th 2000. I found a person to do a cd look up for Illinois who came back with my greatgrand parents marriage date I posted it on the Drury forum & got a very quick response from a cousin by marriage who had their wedding photo & she lived in Lompoc CA her sister-in-law had it in San Diego CA. Then she started sending me info., from my grandfather Paul's brothers family.
Then I'm thinking I found all this why can't I find my father whose last know address was Oxnard CA, which is abt 2 hrs west of me. So I post a message on the Ventura, SOCAL, & CAROOTS-L mailing lists & this was sent to me.
Same address as you listed, here are the two entries I found for Mark.
DRURY, MARK B
240 E MAPLE ST
OXNARD, CA 93033
DOB: 07/XX/56
FIRST REPORTED: 07/1988
LAST REPORTED: 04/2000
This is when I started to drag my feet, what if he doesn't know about me & if he does would he want to see me!!
Then the cousin in Lompoc CA [Drury by marriage] called him Sat [9/23/2000] morning, talked to him, then called me & told me about a lot of info., that he has & that he's been looking for me for 10 yrs, but didn't know about the name change or that we had moved out of the Los Angeles area. The Mark B. Drury is my half brother, if his older brothers had lived I would have 3 half brothers,
I called Mark Saturday evening & we talked for a hour & a half, & he called sun night & we talked for 3 hrs. Boy the poor kid has had it ruff.
Wendell Drury d. 1994 in Aurora, CO retired Navy 1966, retired Navy reserves 1975. Chronic alcholic, died massive stroke.
m. Beverly Anne Pennington June 1950 in WA., separated in 1969, divored 1972 in Oxnard, CA.
David Drury b. Abt. 1952 d. 1988 in Portland, OR of heroine overdose
Kevin [Stillborn] Drury b. 1954
Mark B. Drury b. 7-191-1956 in San Diego, CA. has been married and divorced twice,no children, self employed landscaper and notary public.
Mary Helen Roby m. Paul Drury, m. John Swasey, m. John Quinn, She was also a chronic alcholic and rx drug abuser.
Mark has Paul & Helen Drury's marriage license, old Drury family bible, photo albums.
Paul Drury received a political pardon from prison through a Phillip Daniel Mulligan [1954](Uncle of Beverly Pennington Drury) He took the rap for the mother that killed the baby.
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