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Mother, daughter reunited following 
32-year separation

By Steve Gibson
McClatchy News Service

   SACRAMENTO - The last time Carol Shurte had contact with her second daughter, it was Aug. 14, 1957, when the girl was a few hours old.

   "I held her before I gave her up, just a couple of hours in the afternoon. I changed her diaper and I gave her a bottle," she recalled Thursday. "Then I just couldn't do it any longer. I had to get on with my life."

   Now, awash with feelings of guilt and joy, the 56-year-old Sacramento woman is about to be reunited with the child she felt forced to give up for adoption.

   After a more than a year of searching, the daughter Shurte was separated from in 1957 found her this week.

   Laura Sato, a 32-year-old advertising sales woman for a weekly newspaper in San Diego County, is scheduled to spend the Memorial Day weekend with her newfound family.

   "I'm overjoyed," said Sato, who is three months pregnant. "I feel it's an absolute miracle," the Oceanside woman said.

   Sato, with the aid of a San Clemente organization called Worldwide Tracers, reached her mother, a legal secretary, by telephone for the first time on Tuesday.

   "I didn't know for sure what it would be like," Sato said. "I had thought of possible rejection. But you know, I could never have wished to be received in such a warm manner."

   "I've got 15 new family members now. And the entire family has changed their Memorial Day weekend plans to be in Sacramento when I arrive."

   During the past few days, Sato has learned that her natural father was the late Robert Franzle, an aerospace engineer who divorced her mother. Because they were not married when Laura was born, Shurte worried she might lose custody of an older daughter to her first husband if he learned she had a child out of wedlock.

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