Return of a Runaway Child

By Gary Turbak, November 1982

Georgia teenager Tammy Hendley recognizes one of the missing children in a July 1982 RD article (“Missing: 100,000 Children a Year,” from Kiwanis Magazine) as Tammy Ann Pickerman, a nurse’s aide who worked alongside her mother. The story and Hendley’s eagle eyes would soon reunite Pickerman— real name Marian Wavie Batson— with her family, who had spent two and a half years looking for her.