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Joseph Peter Hyde and Adoption
Biography
Hyde was born in Germany to a married couple. When he was one or two his mother died of cancer and his father, unable to cope alone, left him in an orphanage. After a few months he was adopted by an American military family and had a happy childhood. He did not find out he was adopted until he found the documents when he was in seventh grade, while the family was moving house.
He is now (1998) minister of the First United Methodist church in Blanchard, Oklahoma. In 1997 he traced his father in Germany and met him in 1998.
References
Bittner, J.B. Blosser. "Family Reunion Awaits Minister in Germany," The Daily Oklahoman, 25 March 1998, repr, in: Geborener Deutscher: A Newsletter for German-Born Adoptees and Their Birth/Adoptive Families, 11(2)/Issue 39 (Summer 1998). Also available at: Geborener Deutscher Bittner, J.B. Blosser. "Oklahoma Pastor Meets His German Father," The Daily Oklahoman, 18 April 1998, repr. in: Geborener Deutscher: A Newsletter for German-Born Adoptees and Their Birth/Adoptive Families, 11(2)/Issue 39 (Summer 1998). Also available at: Geborener Deutscher
Categories:
- Adoption Celebrities
- Adopted Persons
- European
- Germany
- USA
- 20th Century
- 21st Century
- Christian
- Late or Traumatic Learning of Adoption
- Formal, American/European-Type Adoption
- Pre-school Years
- Unmarried Mother, Single Parent (Mother or Father) Unable to Cope
- Others ("Strangers")
- Parent(s) Died, Disappeared or Became Incapacitated
- Adoptee/Fosteree Traced Family