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Sean Michael Campbell |
| December
1962
– Alvina Frances Robideau-Peltier met
Patricio Dorrance at a
bar in downtown Yakima, Washington and became close right away. On or around the 12th of December, I was conceived from
the two. It was a destructive
relationship as they were always fighting. During the time Alvina
was pregnant, her sister Patty Robideau-Bear said she was not wanting to have a baby,
and was very upset about. More than once, Alvina tried to miscarry. Alvina was described as being of average body build and only 5-1 tall. She had a medium complexion with brown eyes and black hair. She had a 10th grade education and had worked as a nurse’s aid. She was of Indian and French ethnicity. She was Catholic and wanted me placed in a Catholic home. As a person, she was described as outspoken, hot-headed, an enemy for life if crossed, kind-hearted and an excellent housekeeper. She was born to William Robideau and Annie Jane Jetty on April 19, 1923 in White Earth, Minnesota. Born in Trinidad, Colorado to Manuel Dorrance and Rosa Martinez-Dorrance on April 22, 1932, Pat was reported to be of Scottish, German, and Mexican ancestry. He was 5-11, of average build. He had reddish brown hair, hazel eyes and fair skin. He had a 6th grade education and had worked as a farm/orchard laborer. He had one sister, Virginia, four brothers; Fred, Manuel Jr., Henry and Benito. He also had a half-brother, Charles. Pat had lived in Casper, Wyoming a good majority of his life, says his brother Fred. He had been divorced from wife Linda, date unknown. Linda belonged to an Indian tribe (Eastern Shoshone or Northern Arapaho) in Riverton, Wyoming. It is believed she had a twin-sister, Catherine, who was from the Casper, Wyoming area. Pat may have met Linda in a restaurant-casino in Las Vegas, New Mexico. Pat's brother Benito married Catherine or Katherine. Pat was noted in an article as being in Fresno, California on Thursday, January 23, 1964. His former wife Linda last's name may have been Aragon (December 22, 1966). |
| May 1963 – Alvina went to Catholic Family & Child Services in Yakima She informed them that she had three birth children, Leonard (19), Betty Anne (17) and Sandy (15) from a previous marriage to Leo Peltier. She did not want them to know about her pregnancy. She also reported that she have been living with Pat for five months. |
| September 12, 1963 – I was born in Yakima, Washington at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. I weighed 8 pounds, seven-and-three-quarter ounces. I was 20 and ˝ inches long. Due to being unable to properly care of me, Alvina petitioned the court to have me relinquished for adoption. The agency reported that a fight between your birthparents took place prior to your birth, in the hall of the Pacific Hotel (16.5 South 1st Street) on the day you were born. This is where she was living at the time. |
| September 15, 1963 - Alvina left the hospital against doctor's orders and caseworkers could not find her. |
| September 16, 1963 – I was released from the hospital and placed with foster parents. It is unknown who the foster parents were and where they lived in Yakima. Terri Aguilera-Flemming informed me that it would be very difficult to locate them or obtain any information about them. After being nicknamed “Happy” by hospital employees, my foster parents gave me the name “Charles”. |
| September 19, 1963 - Alvina went to the agency office and told the caseworker she was hiding from your birthfather as he had threatened her because she had chosen to relinquish you. |
| September
20, 1963
– Alvina went to court and signed relinquishment papers. Alvina was permanently deprived of her parental rights and custody,
and I was placed in the custody of the Catholic Family & Child
Service, Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Yakima, for the purpose of
placing for and consenting to adoption. It was apparent that it was
difficult for Alvina to place me for adoption.
She asked to see me after going to court for the relinquishment.
She was happy that I was well and healthy, but then began to feel guilty
for relinquishing me. She had many regrets about placing me for adoption,
but realized that she couldn’t care for me. The agency offered to help her find work, but she never returned to the office asking for any help. |
| September 26, 1963 – The caseworker saw your birth mother on the street, and noted that she looked clean, neat and perky. |
| September 30, 1963 - The State Department of Public Health confirmed that she had left town. The record does not indicate where she went. |
| October 14, 1963 – Dr. Bruce Hudson examined me and again on December 17, 1963. |
| July 1964 – I was placed in my adoptive home, 4 East 23rd Street, Kennewick, WA. William S. and Eleanor A. (Walters) Campbell adopted me. I would also have an older brother, Joseph Patrick at this new home. |
| August 8, 1964 – Father Martin Skehan baptized me at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Kennewick. Godparents were William T. and Leone Walters. |
| September 12, 1964 – 1st birthday in Kennewick, WA. |
| February 3, 1965 – William S. Campbell makes $115 cash payment for attorney and filing fee for my adoption to Burtis Ludwig. |
| March 17, 1965 – Legally adopted at Benton County Superior Court. My birth name of Baby Boy Peltier was changed to Sean Michael Campbell. |
| September 20, 1968 – Although I would not know about this until 39 years later, my birth father, Pat, would be killed in a drowning accident ten miles north of East Wenatchee on Highway 2. The car he was driving with two other men (Ennis G. Kesterson and Raymond Rivas) went off the road, down a steep embankment and into the Lake Entiat section of the Columbia River near Turtle Rock. |
| September 29, 1968 - The submerged vehicle was spotted by a passing truck driver, Jim Horton of Waterville. |
| November 7, 1968 - Dorrance was buried at Evergreen Memorial Park in East Wenatchee in an unmarked grave. The location of the grave is Section C, Block 122, Grave 3. He was 36 years old. |
| December 6, 1968 – Alvina marries Laurence Shirley Showers in Seattle in front of the justice of the peace. They were married at 1:35pm in the King County Courthouse. The two witnesses were Robert Robideau and Rose Lohnes. Alvina was age 38 at her last birthday. |
| June 1971 – We moved from Kennewick to Okanogan, Washington. Dad was a police officer for the Kennewick Police Department. He got a job with the Washington State Patrol in Okanogan as Communications Supervisor. |
| June 26th, 1975 – American Indian rights activist Leonard Peltier (unknown half-brother) was convicted in the shooting deaths of two Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents at Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. After being brought to trial, Bob Robideau, Darrell Butler were acquitted by a federal jury in Iowa on grounds of self-defense. |
| November 26, 1981 - My mother, Eleanor A. Campbell, passes away at Mid-Valley Hospital from respiratory failure. She was 42 years old. |
| June 3, 1982 - I graduated from Okanogan High School. This would be the last class to have graduated from the old Okanogan High School building. |
| September 8, 2002 - Alvina Frances Showers passes away of dementia in Portland, Oregon. She was living at the Graceland Terrace Nursing Home at the time of her death. She was buried at Mount Calvary Cemetery in Portland. She was 79 years old. Her last known address in the state of Washington was 12440 Occidental Avenue South, Seattle, WA 98168. |
| February 17, 2009 - Bob Robideau passes away in Barcelona, Spain. Authorities said his death may have been related to seizures caused by shrapnel left in his head from an accidental explosion. He was 61 years old. |
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