“Seventy-four years is a long time to look for somebody.” Connie Stanley thought she would never find her brother - a Facebook message proved her wrong.
Everywhere she traveled with her foster family and, later, her husband, she would flip through the yellow pages looking for her brother's name. Again and again, there was no Lamar Hoke.
Because of his interest in the film and television industry, he moved his family to California in 1981. And all that time, he too longed for his long-lost sister.In the last decade, Lamar’s wife, Josette, started an Ancestry.com account as a way to try to find Connie. It helped her connect with Lamar’s uncle’s family. They went to a family reunion with them, meeting cousins and others from his mother's family, in Sacramento in 2013.
“Seventy-four years is a long time to look for somebody – all your life peeping behind rocks, in corners, looking in phone books and suddenly there he is, sitting there at a piano on Facebook,” Connie said. “I didn’t want him to think I was some kind of troll or somebody trying to hack him out of something.”Her daughter, Victoria, decided to reach out.
and have video chatted via Zoom – something that’s normal in the time of COVID-19, but not ideal for rekindling lost relationships. She remembers the picnic they were at when their mother told the family that she had cancer and that there was nothing doctors could do for her. She remembers her mother dying slowly. When they found their mother dead that day, she was only 28 years old.
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