The following article is being shared in memory of Katie Laine by her sister Suzanne Hilty Lind and originally appeared on the blog of writer Greta Holt. Katie's obituary is HERE.
Katie graduated from Bluffton High School in 1966. After the death of her birth mother, Eleanor Keeney Myers in 1949, she grew up in Corpus Christi, TX with her father, George Myers, her brother George Myers, Jr., her stepmother Hannelora, and five half siblings. George and Katie's baby sister, Suzanne (Susie) stayed with the Herman and Celia Hilty family in Bluffton after the death of their mother and was later adopted into the HIlty family. Following a time of disruption in the Myers family in Texas, Katie moved to Ohio and lived with the Hilty family for six years, attending Bluffton Junior and Senior High School. She returned to Texas for university studies and raised family and developed her career there. The two sisters became close friends and continued a loving, often hilarious relationship throughout their adult lives.
September 8, 2020
My friend (since 6th grade!), Greta Purves Holt, has been writing for many years. I was sharing some writing I was doing with her and she invited me to be a guest writer on her blog. Here is the story I wrote about experiences my German stepmother had during WWII in Nazi Germany.
By Katie Myers Laine
https://gretaholtwriter.com/2020/09/07/through-my-mothers-eyes/
All that came to be in my life began with what occurred to my two mothers.
In 1949 my birth mother, paternal grandmother and paternal great-grandmother were killed in a car accident. They were buried on my second birthday. My father, a WWII veteran (paratrooper), left after her death. When he returned, he had married a German woman, and she became my stepmother. They arrived in America, the promised land, on July 4, 1951, the nation’s birthday.
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