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Hi this is an S.O.S for I am looking for lost family and I am hoping that maybe you all can help me find them.. It starts like this my Mom Dixie Daugherty(Sluder) had an Aunt named Jean Daugherty (McLean) she was about 16-17 when she left home and moved down to New Olreans. Jean also had a daughter named Cherry Blossom Mclean and when Cherry was 16 she was using the last name Bango. When Cherry was 17-18 she had a little boy named Leo Bango Zigman. Cherry was born either in 1926-27 just here in the past few months someone told us that there is a Leo Bango Jackson that lives close to Cherry B Jackson 81 and her husband 80. We have been searching for Cherry for months and months we have pictures of her and Leo when he was 6 yrs old in 1951..Cherry’s adopted mom my cousin Jean was born in 1895 she’s dead now but we need to know where she’s buried and Cherry would know..Can you please help me? I know that Cherry B Jackson was and still is in New Orleans somewhere alon!g with her son Leo, he should be about 64 now…We have tried and tried to find her and I even placed an ad in Craigslist for New Orleans hoping someone would see my S.O.S I know that they are survivors of Katrina and I know that my cousin never left La she loved it there…Let me know something anything…
Terri