Searching for Donald Wendt of Chicago
October 9th, 2001
My name is Terence Wendt and my daughters and I need your help locating our family and my father.I was born in October of 1967 in Blue Island, Illinois.Through circumstances beyond my control, I never knew my father after I was around 3 to 6 months old.I guess I accepted that fact most of my life, until the birth of my daughters.I have a deep belief that my daughters have a right to know about their background.Does “their” family history contain Breast Cancer or Heart Disease?Should they not know their family background?I would like them to know where we come from.
The Story as I know it:
My fathers name was Donald Robert Wendt.As far as I know, he was born and raised in the city of Chicago, maybe in the Bridgeport neighborhood.My birth certificate states he was a truck driver.My mother and father had an apartment in the city of Chicago next door to my father’s mother.They weren’t married.My father’s sister lived about 3 blocks west on the same street, and she would watch my older sister and I.I don’t know how or why, but my mother found out that my father was married.He had daughters older then myself.His wife and other children were living in Oak Park at the time (?).I guess he was having problems in his marriage at the time because his family knew what was going on, but didn’t say anything for so long.At any rate, my mother was VERY upset and left and never saw anyone from my father’s family since…This is what I was told.
Names:
My father’s father: Donald Robert Wendt or Robert Donald Wendt
My father’s mother: Dorothy Wendt
My father: Donald Robert Wendt (born around 1934?) 33 years old at my birth.
My father’s siblings:
Twins – Michael & Christine
Brother – Lee
Sister – Sharon (was married with the last name Wiginton?)
Twins – Robert and Richard
I’m very intent on finding my father and/or his family.I’d appreciate any and all help.
Thank you very much,
Terence Wendt
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