Lineage-(noun) lineage descent from an ancestor;
2. The line
of descendants if a particular ancestor; family
Descent-properties attributable to your ancestry;
extraction, origin
2.
Ancestry, lineage-inherited properties shared with others of your
bloodline
So my “lineage
relatives” feel that I had no right to know that my mother died. I had no right
to be included in her obituary and basically that I don’t exist. I have news
for them, all of them, I DO EXIST! To their shame, horror or whatever I am the
secret they want swept under the rug and never mentioned again. If I am not
mentioned then I don’t exist; the whole “out of sight, out of mind” sort of
thinking.
Regardless of how they feel or what they think, I DO EXIST
and I AM THE DAUGHTER OF JANE! I cannot change the fact that I am her daughter
and she is my mother. It isn’t just my 5 half siblings that deny the fact I am
Jane’s daughter but so do all the rest of my relatives on Jane’s side. So I
thought I would share with you just how many people ignore or look the other
way or deny that Jane ever had a baby before she was married.
I am the granddaughter of George Edward Betsinger and Fern
Weisbard Betsinger Wood.
I am the niece of George Betsinger, who died in 1985, Nancy
his wife.
I am the niece of Bonnie Betsinger Cleveland and her husband
Bill (deceased)
I am the niece of Clinton (Butch) Betsinger and his wife
Pricilla
I am the niece of Judy Betsinger Mahnke Rumsey and her
current husband Glen
I am the niece of James, (Jim) Betsinger and his wife Julie
I am the cousin of Christine Betsinger, her brother Jay
Betsinger (1969-1970), and her sisters
Shawna, Melanie and Janel.
I am the cousin of William (Bill) Cleveland
I am the cousin of Michelle Betsinger and her siblings
Douglas and Randy
I am the cousin of Charles (Charlie) Mahnke (1972-2017) and
his brothers Jason and Brian
I am the cousin of Jill Betsinger and her brother Joel.
I am the sister of Lonnie Becker
I am the sister of LuAnn Becker
I am the sister of Linell Becker
I am the sister of LeEllen Becker
I am the sister of Karla Becker
I am an aunt to my siblings’ children
This is a list of the people who seem to forget the simple
process of DNA and genetics. Regardless of how they feel about me I AM THEIR
RELATIVE and I will be till my dying day. I cannot change this fact. They can
deny me in my mother’s obituary and refuse to accept me as a relative but the
simple fact that my mother gave me life ends the argument.
Jane stayed in Iowa till August, then she was sent to live
with an Aunt and Uncle in Colorado for the remainder of her pregnancy. Dr. Waldon Kurtz first saw Jane on August
20th. My mother went into labor at 38 weeks gestation and I was born at 10:39pm
on September 1st. The cord was wrapped around my neck once; I weighted 7lbs and
2 ½ oz. and was 20 ½ inches long. There were no other
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| A portion of my birth certificate-Baby Girl Betsinger!!! |
I am the ghost that my siblings, especially my sisters have
lived with all their lives. They told me when we were speaking, that they
always wondered why when they watched a show where a birth mother was reunited
with her baby, Jane would tell them that if they got pregnant they would never
be giving away a baby. They wondered why she would get emotional and say that
every time…simple, she had done it. I have been a part of their family from
before they were born and they never knew what it was; well it was me. It was
me that was always in the back of her mind and it was me she talked about last
year when she nearly died. Despite what my lineage relatives think I have
always been a part of my mother’s life from the moment I was conceived. Because
if I was not in her heart, mind and thoughts then that makes her an evil,
heartless woman and according to her children and her obituary that isn’t who
Jane was…
