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| They’re Here... Lear family Haitian adoptees arrive! |
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By: JoAnn Biren, staff writer |
February 3, 2010 |
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Rita Lear, Slayton, (back left) along with her new grandchildren (Pierre and Ange-Laurette) from Haiti, with Jeanine (Lear) and Brian Deutz of Sioux Falls. Pierre and Ange-Laurette were recently adopted by Rita’s son, Bruce, and wife, Jill. 
Jill and Bruce Lear with their new children | "We were very comfortable and had never really considered adoption," Jill said recently. However, now they can see God’s hand in their life and how he had "planted the seed years ago." |
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Bringing a child into your family and calling them "son" or "daughter" is how families come to be formed. This can happen in a variety of ways. Some bring children into their family through natural childbirth or even through marriage. Others, for a myriad of reasons, bring children into their families through adoption. These children's birthparents have chosen adoption for their children out of great love, hoping another set of parents could offer their child better opportunities for the life they want for them. That is exactly what happened to Bruce Lear and his wife Jill.
Bruce, the son of the late Royal Lear, former teacher at Slayton High School, and Rita Lear who still resides on the Lear farm north of Slayton, graduated from Slayton High School in 1985. He went on to receive his degree in Mechanical Engineering at South Dakota State University, Brookings. Jill Lear grew up in Brookings and is a graduate of Augustana College. Bruce is an account manager for Angus-Palm in Watertown, South Dakota while Jill is a school psychologist in the rural schools of northeast South Dakota. To read the rest of this article - pick up a copy of the Murray County News or you can read it on line - subscriptions to The Murray County News are available online. Click on the free demo and it will give you instructions on how to subscribe for the online edition. |
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