Karen Smith:  

Life Karen Sue Parker. I have been married 3 times and had the last names of Shipp, Kielty, and now Smith. I have 2 boys, and am currently a housewife. For 20 years of my life I lived on an 18 wheeler truck with my current husband driving 48 states and Canada. I have been in every state and over 3 million miles registered on this body. We currently live in Scottsburg .Oregon to be near my son Mike who is very ill. My husband Bob is 75 and still driving Long Haul full time. As some of you know I was adopted at an early age and I searched for my biological parents and found them, also to my great surprise I am the oldest of 24 children all of us ended up in orphanages (some adopted others weren't.)My birth name as it turned out was Shirley Lee Jones. I have located all my brother's and sister's except for 1 sister in Italy . Most of the family are half-brother's and half-sister's . I have 1 whole (same Father and Mother)brother and 1 whole sister that were adopted with me. I have lived in many states including California, Florida, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Ohio, Tennessee, New York, and Texas . I also lived in Gamboa, Panama in Central America. I have moved a lot in my lifetime which made it hard for my reunion class to catch up with me. When I was 6 and living in Gamboa, Panama we lived in a home on stilts due to the jungle ,wild animals and bugs of a rather large size. We overlooked the Panama Canal and watched the ocean liners go by, our view of Calebra Cut (name has since been changed) was beautiful especially at night. There was also a one way bridge that led to Panama City from Gamboa (the bridge is still there). Now that area has been turned into a hi...Expand for more