2 sisters meet sibling, seek another

AKRON (AP) — Finally meeting their half sister after years of searching means two Northeast Ohio sisters are halfway to a goal.

After decades, Lanaye Allen and Angie Crosby have met their half sister and they’re still hopeful to meet a second half sister, one of two baby girls their mother gave up for adoption in the early 1960s.

Carolyn Scott was the other baby girl.

Earlier this month, she met Allen and Crosby, and they hugged and cried.

“I was stunned,” Allen said. “All I could do was cry because we had been looking so long, so hard, running into dead ends all the time for the past 30 years, that I was giving up hope that we’d ever complete our family.”

Allen and Crosby say they only know their other half sister as Belinda.

The three women have no idea where she might be.

“We won’t be complete until we find Belinda,” Crosby said. “But just finding Carolyn makes this a wonderful Christmas. It’s the greatest Christmas present I’ve ever received.”

Allen, 52, and Crosby, 51, spent part of their childhood in Cleveland with their maternal grandparents, who had adopted their mother. They didn’t know their mother, who was elsewhere, gave birth to two girls by two men other than their father.