Like many children, Arnold Nikolaisen was not happy to learn he wasn’t going to remain an only child. However, the shock for him was worse than most — he found out at 75.
Nikolaisen was raised as an only child, never knowing he had an older sister adopted away before he was born.
It was quite a shock to get a call from Traudy Schwenk, who claimed to be his sister. Nikolaisen refused to believe the evidence until a DNA test proved she was telling the truth.Now the Kearns man is embracing the sister he never knew he had, including paying a visit to her Hesperia, Mich., home. Nikolaisen took his wife, two children and granddaughter to meet Schwenk, and it became immediately clear she was a missing piece of the family.
Read the full article in the September 30, 2009 edition of The Salt Lake Tribune.
