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Prison is setting of reunion between mother and son
By Donald E. Skinner
The Register

   The setting left a little to be desired, but Lorraine Wegner finally met her son - the one she hadn't seen since 1955 when she gave him up for adoption because of the poverty and a bad marriage.
   He's not doing as well as she had hoped. He's in prison.
   After 33 years, they met Friday at the California Institute for Men at Chino, where David Tuckness, 34, is serving nine months for violating parole on a drug-related conviction.
   The meeting was strained, said Wegner, 55, of Garden Grove. "He said he understood why I did it. We talked a little bit, but we didn't touch or hug or anything," she said.
   In 1952, Wegner was a 19-year old going to the movies in Rochester, NY, when she spotted a handsome man in an Air Force uniform.
   Two months later, they married and moved to California. Nine months later, they had a son. By that time, the marriage was in trouble and Wegner was on her own, trying to make ends meet on a theater usherette's salary.
   The baby, named Tommy, was spending most of his time at a day-care center. When the mother fell behind in payments, the woman running the center suggested she consider letting a couple adopt her son.
   "She knew a couple that wanted him. I wasn't able to take care of him, and my boyfriend at the time didn't want the child either. So I met with a lawyer in a car and signed the papers and blocked the whole thing from my mind," Wegner said.
   That was 1955. Wegner re-married in 1959, found she couldn't bear any more children, and adopted a son, Daniel, now 23.
   Through the years, she considered trying to locate her first-born, but gave it up. She found religion in 1982, after the death of her second husband, and began to think again about a search. Last year she hired Worldwide Tracers of San Clemente.
   All she could give them was a birth date and the name Tommy. Pat Rutherford, owner of the company, said Wegner alternately would ask for progress reports, then decide she didn't want to search after all.
   "I got so disgusted with her, I sent her money back just to get her off our backs," Rutherford said. "But we kept looking anyway. By that time, our hearts were into it."
   Rutherford won't disclose exactly how he found Tommy, but he said it involved "going underground" and obtaining information from sealed records.
   Last week he contacted the adoptive mother, Juanita Tuckness of Whittier, who broke the news to him that Tuckness wouldn't be hard to find.
   She described how she and her husband adopted the boy, put him through Whittier Christian School and high school, only to discover his drug problem.
   Tuckness has been in prison three times since 1985 for drug-related offenses, the adoptive mother said. "He's not a bad person, he just got lost," she said. "We don't condone what he's done, but we're not going to turn our back on him."
   And now, Tuckness has a second mother to worry about him.
   "He gets out in November," Wegner said, "and he's promised he wants to rehabilitate himself and let God take over his life."

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