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Monday, July 18, 2016Sewell, 30, met Jones and Parsley at the store. “Let’s look at your face, because we’ve seen your pictures,” Jones said as Rod Sewell laughed.He, his brother and their sisters, JoAnn Thatcher, of Goldendale, and Pamela Rowe, of Oregon, all contributed photos.“I think it took a couple of months. We all gathered every photo we could find,” and Scott Gray, of Goldendale, created the video and made five copies, Rod Sewell said.Born in Lava Hot Springs, Idaho, their mother grew up in Cowiche, Rod Sewell said. “Her dad worked for the railroad, and the story always was that she was born in the (train) station in Idaho.“Dad was a licensed pilot who could fly before he could drive. He was flying before his parents knew about it,” he said.They marveled at the “what ifs.”What if the person who stole the tape from the shed behind Laura Sewell’s home in Selah had thrown it away? What if the store volunteer hadn’t checked the tapes in the “Titanic” box? What if he had thrown the tape away instead of showing it to Jones and Parsley?“I can’t believe it was in ‘Titanic,’?” Laura Sewell said.“For (the volunteer) to look inside and actually find it,” Parsley said.“It was fate,” Sewell added.She remembered going with her grandmother to the mission in the summers, when Annette Sewell baby-sat her grandchildren and volunteered there. That was in the mid-1990s, Sewell said — around the time the videotape was made.Annette drove a red Volkswagen Beetle, made great strawberry-rhubarb pie and urged her granddaughter to always stick with the truth, Laura Sewell told Jones and Parsley.Sad that she didn’t realize it was missing, Sewell was glad she still owned a VCR.“I’m going to go home and watch it,” she said.
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Monday, July 18, 2016Sewell, 30, met Jones and Parsley at the store. “Let’s look at your face, because we’ve seen your pictures,” Jones said as Rod Sewell laughed.He, his brother and their sisters, JoAnn Thatcher, of Goldendale, and Pamela Rowe, of Oregon, all contributed photos.“I think it took a couple of months. We all gathered every photo we could find,” and Scott Gray, of Goldendale, created the video and made five copies, Rod Sewell said.Born in Lava Hot Springs, Idaho, their mother grew up in Cowiche, Rod Sewell said. “Her dad worked for the railroad, and the story always was that she was born in the (train) station in Idaho.“Dad was a licensed pilot who could fly before he could drive. He was flying before his parents knew about it,” he said.They marveled at the “what ifs.”What if the person who stole the tape from the shed behind Laura Sewell’s home in Selah had thrown it away? What if the store volunteer hadn’t checked the tapes in the “Titanic” box? What if he had thrown the tape away instead of showing it to Jones and Parsley?“I can’t believe it was in ‘Titanic,’?” Laura Sewell said.“For (the volunteer) to look inside and actually find it,” Parsley said.“It was fate,” Sewell added.She remembered going with her grandmother to the mission in the summers, when Annette Sewell baby-sat her grandchildren and volunteered there. That was in the mid-1990s, Sewell said — around the time the videotape was made.Annette drove a red Volkswagen Beetle, made great strawberry-rhubarb pie and urged her granddaughter to always stick with the truth, Laura Sewell told Jones and Parsley.Sad that she didn’t realize it was missing, Sewell was glad she still owned a VCR.“I’m going to go home and watch it,” she said.
