Disaster - Seeking Family Members

We are posting these notices and letters as a public service, and do hope that someone is able to help.

Great news! They are still in Korat and are all safe & well.

I am so grateful for your compassion & generosity. We are one of the lucky families - I wish there were happy endings like ours.
Kindest regards
Deborah Davis
----- Original Message -----
From: Frank G Anderson
To: Debbie Davis
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 5:55 PM
Subject: Re: Please Help

So far, no luck. Do you know what airline they were supposed to be on? It may have been contacted by them.

12/29/04 (The following includes latest replies first):

Thank you, that helps a lot. I know this school - it is well known. I will call this morning to check. Local time here is 04:15 hrs. I am an early riser.

Zoila.Espana@providence.org wrote:

I'm not sure. I know he and his girlfriend had family visiting for the holidays but I don't know where they would be taking them for sightseeing. I don't know his phone # at all, we keep in touch just by email now. He works at a school named Suranaree Withaya. That's all I know.

Zoila K. Espa?a, CMA
Providence Family Medicine SE
4104 SE 82nd Ave #250
Portland, OR 97266
Ph 503-215-9850
Direct 503-215-9903
Fax 503-215-9855

"We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone."

-----Original Message-----
From: Frank G Anderson [mailto:ethics@loxinfo.co.th]
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 1:13 PM
To: Espana, Zoila
Subject: Re: Daniel

30 December 2004
Korat is hundreds of miles away, and the province actually felt nothing.
No one/nothing here was affected.
Without personally visiting your friend's home, I can't say whether he
decided to go south or not.
Is it likely that he may have been traveling, or that he is a stay home
person? I don't suppose he has a telephone number that he left with you...
Regards,
Frank

Zoila.Espana@providence.org wrote:

Hello, I have a friend there in Korat, I need to know that he is ok. His name is Daniel Ramos III, he is to be living at:
61/2 Mitrapab Road Soi 22
Muang Korat 30000
Thailand
Was this anywhere near this disaster?

Zoila

Zoila K. Espa?a, CMA
Providence Family Medicine SE
4104 SE 82nd Ave #250
Portland, OR 97266
Ph 503-215-9850
Direct 503-215-9903
Fax 503-215-9855

"We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone."

28 December 2004
Hello
I'm writing to you from Australia. My brother (David John Squires) & his wife (Wanida Pen Squires) and 2 children (Rachael & Mathew) are in Thailand at the moment. The last time we heard from them was on Christmas Day and they were staying in Korat with Wanida's mother. We haven't heard from them since the earthquake and tsunami in Phuket. We are terribly worried about them because we are not sure if they are still in Korat (we don't even now how far away Korat is from Phuket??) or if they are traveling around? - maybe even to Phuket or Bangkok. Could you please reply to me and let me know where Korat is from Phuket and how big it is. All we know is that Wanida's mother lives there but we don't even know her name. David is enlisted in the Australia Army and they are also trying to get in contact with him. He hasn't registered at the embassy.
Please help in any way you can.
Thank you.
Deborah Ann Davis
Newcastle
New South Wales
Australia
Phone 61 0249589862
debdavis@bigpond.net.au

Our reply:

28 December 2004
Your message just came into our mailbox.
Korat is literally hundreds of miles from the striken area, and in fact, we felt absolutely nothing here in association with the quake and tsunami. Bangkok was similarly unaffected.
The problem, as you are aware with following up on things is lack of details. The only thing I can think of here in Korat to do at the moment is to post notices in English, and ask local hotel operators to post them as well, at certain retailers that frequent foreigners, for example, eateries like Pizza Shop and so on. I am sure that people will be only too wiling to assist in this manner, but can not guarantee anything. My own son and daugter-in-law were in Phuket for their honeymoon this last June, by the way, and it was indeed fortunate that we did not convince them to delay it until December as we had first considered doing.
I will copy and paste your note in an MS Word document and ask, as said, the retailers and hotels to kindly post the notice. I pray that your brother and his family are well, and will do my best to see if anything can be done to trace their whereabouts. We'll also post your appeal online in our new Looking for Family section.
Do you possibly have any kind of corespondence, documents, or notes that your brother may have made regarding his local address here in Korat? If there is a privacy issue, I assume that the Australian police would be amenable to your checking your brother's home for such notes and materials. Consider it.
For your information, besides being hundreds of miles away from the disaster area, Korat (the province and its capitol have the same name as do all Thai provinces (compared against western cities like New York, where it is not New York but Albany as NY's capitol), is Thailand's largest province and its second largest city after Bangkok. We have a municipal population of around 300,000 and provincial population of around 2.3 million. Known as the gateway to the northeast, Korat (formal or longer name is Nakhonratchasima) is geographically situated on the Korat Plateau nearly in the middle between Bangkok and the other NE Thailand provinces (there are a total of 19, that comprise around 23 million people). Korat is more laid back than tourist cities, cheaper and quieter. It also has the least rain!
Please rest assured that we join you in prayer, and wish that this works out well and that your family is rejoined.
Finally, one other thing we have done is to email your message to the editor of The Nation, one of Thailand's largest circulated English language dailies, with an appeal to include it in tomorrow's issue. I don't know if they can make the deadline, but we'll try.
It's six pm at the time of this writing, and the Extension 6 number at the Bkk Australian Embassy that a recorded message says to dial does not reply.
God bless.
Sincerely,
Frank G Anderson

I just left a recorded message with the home phone of the Australian military attache in Bangkok. I don't know if this will generate anything.