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Follow-up on Chinese infant found on Guadalcanal:

http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogspot.com/2013/01/new-york-census-confirms-obama-alias.html

When a miracle was in the offing, Father Gehring always had help. There was, for example, Foster Hailey, the New York Times war correspondent who stumbled on Patsy Lee and wrote the series of articles that brought her to national attention.

Because he could not communicate with her in any of the eight Chinese dialects he knew, Father Gehring had made up the name Patsy Lee. But when a Singapore woman read the Times clippings sent to her by a sister in New York after the war, the woman, who had lost a 6-year-old daughter named Patsy Li at sea when their ship was torpedoed off Singapore in April 1942, refused to accept it as a coincidence.

Going in 1946 to the New Hebrides orphanage where the girl had been taken, the woman, Ruth Li, declared that Father Gehring’s Patsy Lee was the child she had last seen drifting away on a piece of wreckage, 4,000 miles from Guadalcanal.

Father Gehring, who had corresponded with Mrs. Li, warning her that the Guadalcanal child could not possibly be hers — but suggesting that she adopt the girl, was not one to argue with miracles.

After all, the Navy doctor who first examined her on Guadalcanal had told Father Gehring that she could not live through the night.

She did better than that. After a troubled home life in Singapore, Ms. Lee was brought to the United States by Father Gehring in 1950, became a nurse, married, and after her husband died, married a man named Angelo Fasano.

After Father Gehring retired to Florida to live with his sister, Mariette Santangelo, his only survivor, Ms. Fasano, who now lives in Las Vegas, Nev., was a frequent visitor.

At Father Gehring’s funeral on Thursday at St. Vincent’s Seminary in Philadelphia, where he was ordained in 1930, she was there as was a Marine honor guard, reminders of a time when Guadalcanal was a name to reckon with and a little girl was a miracle of war.