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Schulenburg Cold Case Involving Child Actresses Getting New Life

  • By age 10, Lora Lee Michel of Schulenburg had shared the screen with Hollywood greats including Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper and Olivia de Havilland, but she disappeared in 1963.
    By age 10, Lora Lee Michel of Schulenburg had shared the screen with Hollywood greats including Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper and Olivia de Havilland, but she disappeared in 1963.
A child actress who grew up in Schulenburg disappeared in 1963, and now her niece wants to find out what happened to her. Lora Lee Michel was born in Schulenburg on Sept. 13, 1940. Her birth mother left her family, and her father put her up for adoption. Schulenburg cotton buyer Otto Michel adopted her. In the late 1940s, a dance troupe she was in performed before Texas Governor Beauford Halbert…

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