Man hopes to see his sisters after 30-year absence
An Edmonton man is longing to see his sisters again now that they have been located after being missing for more than 30 years.
Ken Hakze, 57, was notified last week that police had finally tracked down his two sisters, Anna and Kym, who are both living in the United States.
“My brother Gill called me last week when he was told. He was so shocked. He was really without words at first. We were always hoping they were alive,” said Hakze.
Anna and Kym Hakze were reported missing in 2003 by their mother, who hadn’t seen or heard from her daughters in more than a decade.
The last time the women were seen by family was in the mid-1980s.
Anna Hakze, now 67, was estranged from her family at the time, but was close to her young sister Kym, now 53.
The two walked away from their lives, but were found recently when a detective did online searches on a book written in 1984 by an author who turned out to be one of the women.
They did not know that they were considered missing and that their family had been looking for them, Lethbridge police Staff Sgt. Scott Woods said.
“After so many years, it’s very unusual for a case like this to end with good news,” Woods said in a news release.
“Usually we find ourselves telling a family their loved one has met with some sort of tragedy.”
The women’s mother died some years ago.
“She never knew and that’s very sad,” Ken Hakze said. “She always wanted to reconcile.”