"Answers come too late for Ike worker's daughter
Clear Lake woman uses Web to track down adult child of man killed while saving dogs from freeway
By DANE SCHILLER
Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle
Oct. 7, 2008, 10:29PM
The e-mail from a stranger in Clear Lake was to the point, and an improbable end to a Pittsburgh woman's 13 years of searching for the father she hadn't spoken to since she was a kid.
"Is your father's name Robert Emery? The whole city of Houston is looking for any relatives," read the message.
Alaina Emery was startled as she stared at a computer screen while in the library at paralegal school.
Trembling and swept with emotion, she misunderstood the reason for the question.
"Why is the entire city of Houston looking for him?" she typed back.
The exchange would quickly lead to Alaina, now 25, realizing her long-lost father was Robert "Bob" Emery, the mysterious Hurricane Ike relief worker killed the night of Sept. 27 as he dashed onto the East Freeway to rescue three dogs stranded in the emergency lane hugging the median.
The men who worked with him clearing storm debris and traveled with him from the Florida Keys described him as a big-hearted jack-of-all trades, but knew nothing of his past." read the full story here
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