ROANOKE TIMES 

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, April 19, 1990                   TAG: 9004190395
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A3   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: OAKLAND, CALIF.                                LENGTH: Short

QUAKE ORPHAN PLACED WITH MOTHER'S COUSIN

A 10-month-old boy orphaned when his parents died in the quake-triggered collapse of Interstate 880 was placed permanently with his mother's cousin Tuesday, peacefully ending a family feud over him and his sizable estate.

Alameda County Superior Court Judge Roderick Duncan said James Henry Brown IV will live with Arthur and Tonia Lewis on their 50-acre hog and cattle ranch near Chowchilla, about 120 miles southeast of San Francisco.

Brown's mother, 18-year-old Michele Richard, and his father, James Brown III, died on the Oakland freeway Oct. 17 while en route to a Berkeley fishing pier.

The boy is to receive $100,000 in damages for his parents' deaths, but the settlement is likely to reach close to $1 million by the time the issue is finally resolved.

- Associated Press 


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