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Article: Finding His Father, Finding a Friend; After 50 Years, Neal Kendall Jr. Meets the `Pop' He Never Knew
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- June 18, 1995
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The word softly glides from the son's mouth, embracing the old
man, tying one to the other.
"Pop."
Neal Kendall Jr. is still getting used to the word. He waited 50
years to say it.
He always wanted to know his father, who abandoned him and his
mother shortly after he was born in 1944. As time passed, he stopped
dreaming about the father he never knew. "I just gave up 20 years
ago, just stopped looking," Kendall Jr. said.
And then he found him.
Neal Kendall Sr., his 83-year-old father, was featured in a
Washington Post article about Christmas wishes made by the residents
of a city-owned nursing home. Kendall Sr. wanted a baseball hat. His
only one had cigarette burns and was looking a bit ...
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... ... Sharon) Starr, and Edmund (Maureen) Staroselec. Loving grandfather of Dawn (Kendall Sr.) Norby and Debra (John) Niedermann. Proud great grandfather of Kendall Jr., Tiffany, Lauren and Collin. Further survived by 6 step grandchildren and ...
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