Some might think the library is only good for finding books, but Marquita Johnson knows
different.
Through the help of several employees at Bartow Public Library, she found her father, Earl V. Whipple, whom she had not seen since she was 6 years old, 56 years ago. For 25 of those years, she thought he was dead, based on information from a police officer in Los Angeles.
Mrs. Johnson’s search began almost on a whim. She and her husband, Anthony Johnson, began coming to the library in April for a different reason — to find information on Mr. Johnson’s genealogical roots through Native American records.
Read the full article in the September 30, 2009 edition of the Polk County Democrat,
