Episode 15 - Secrets from My Twilight Zone

Yes, A New Find

If this is your first encounter with my story, you may want to start at the beginning here: Secrets from My Twilight Zone.

She had gone missing from her Pittsburgh home around Thanksgiving in 1939, the year her father died. I had not thought to search the internet under Mrs. Virginia Rush, as the previous news article from December 2, 1939, identified her as Miss Virginia Connelly. Apparently, my grandmother considered herself married and then separated from her “husband.” Since identifying my biological grandfather as John Rusinko/Rush, and reading that he made my grandmother Virginia Rush his beneficiary to his WWII compensation in 1950, he gave a Cleveland Ohio address for her. So, they seemed to have maintained some sort of connection if only a sentimental one. By this time, my mother, their daughter, had been informally adopted by Virginia’s mother Suzanne O’Toole Connelly, my great-grandmother. To prove this, my grandmother appears to have secured a baptismal certificate for my m…