Re: Helen & Delores Horn from montana
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Re: Helen & Delores Horn from montana
Jason Dews 6/01/06
I only met Delores once, when i was 12 years old and we went to visit my mother Christine who was living with her. I also met Doug and remember that he had some kind of brain problem, cancer maybe? His speech was messed up and he walked off balance if I remember right. My mother Christine has paranoid schizoprehnia and has been in and out of mental hospitals since she was a teenager. my sister also has schizophrenia and has been in mental hospitals a few times.
I remember Delores collecting dolls and having a lot ofcut outs from the funny pages all over her fridge. I met Merl as well but he was heavily intoxicated. Debbie or Dottie, I can't remember which is the one who gave me a piggy bank I think for christmas. My mother christine lives in a group home now, ever since Delores passed away when I was about 15 I guess. I don't know who Delores's father is.
I wouldn't trust anything you heard about family secrets from Delores, my impression of her was that she might have had some mental health issues as well. I was told all sorts of crazy things by my own mother like when I was 11 she told me her brother Doug raped her and she gave birth to a baby and adopted him. Also, my mother was 16 and my father was 33 when they met and Delores not only allowed them to have a relationship but let them sleep together under her roof so I think she probably didn't have it completely together. That said, she seemed like a sweet lady and I kept in contact with her via letters and phone calls occasionally. She was able to communicate better than my mother. My mother and father divorced when I was a toddler and I wasn't allowed to see any of them until that visit when I was 12. Apparently my mother tried to contact us but my father threw away any letters/gifts. When I was a teenager she ran in front of a bus or a semi truck and that's when she ended up in the group home. Oh and I heard stories about her running through hotel rooms naked and being arrested by the police when my father was still with her.
It's interesting to hear from someone from that side of the family! I guess that makes us what, second cousins?
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Re: Helen & Delores Horn from montana
doug Dews 5/04/08