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    Filed at 7:10 am under by dcobranchi


    A 14-year-old homeschooler has run away from home.

    The family of a teen runaway last seen Thursday night is requesting information on the girl’s whereabouts.

    Leona “Lena” Abigail Stahl, 14, has been reported as a missing person to the Havelock Police Department. She is five feet, seven inches tall, weighs between 150 and 160 pounds and has dirty blonde hair and blue eyes.

    “She has a medical condition, she does require medicine and she’s past due for her medication,” said Leona’s mother, Jill Stahl. She added that the girl suffers from chronic migraines.

    Jill Stahl said her daughter was last seen at 10 p.m. Thursday in the family’s Havelock home. She woke to find Leona missing and a note indicating that she had run away.

    Anyone with information is asked to call Officer Joshua Tripp of the Havelock Police Department at 447-3212 or Mike and Jill Stahl at 447-1696. The Stahls can be reached via e-mail at jstahl@ec.rr.com.

    10 Responses to “PSA: NC”


    Comment by
    JJ Ross
    February 24th, 2008
    at 8:52 am

    (wincing) I haven’t heard “dirty blonde hair” since mid-last century, wonder if that was the family’s descriptor to the police or the police descriptor from the photo, surely not the newswriter’s own?. . .far from my southern country roots and with raised consciousness in this century, it’s no less jarring to me than if the media had duly described a black man’s skin tone as dirty.


    Comment by
    Daryl Cobranchi
    February 24th, 2008
    at 9:59 am

    It gets even worse than that:

    Lena has Dirty Dishwater Hair and Blue Eyes. She has a Medical Condition with her stomach and acute migraines and is in need of her medication by now.

    Thank You for doing this!!!!

    Sincerely,
    Jill Stahl


    Comment by
    JJ Ross
    February 24th, 2008
    at 10:27 am

    OH – I just realized maybe it grabbed my gut because it evoked Imus tossing off “nappy-headed” —


    Comment by
    JJ Ross
    February 24th, 2008
    at 10:33 am

    Looking at the picture, my Carolina grandmother would have used that phrase about the hair color and then added matter-of-factly that this young girl is “stout.” But she was born in the 1800s and long since passed away. No one talking to the media today, even in Carolina, can claim those excuses.


    Comment by
    Bonnie
    February 25th, 2008
    at 7:33 am

    Would your grandmother have used the term ‘cain’t look past the end of their noses’ to describe people whose only comments about a runaway being how her mother describes her hair???

    🙂


    Comment by
    Toni
    February 25th, 2008
    at 7:44 am

    Thanks, Bonnie, for phrasing -so succinctly- exactly what was going through my mind about the above comments.

    I have a son this age and can hardly bear to think about what this family is going through.

    Any sightings or good news ??


    Comment by
    JJ Ross
    February 25th, 2008
    at 10:28 am

    Why we so often can’t undertand each other I guess — in my mind the family’s description of her suggested stronglywhat she could have been running away from.


    Comment by
    JJ Ross
    February 25th, 2008
    at 11:29 am

    LAst evening –
    “A Havelock teenager, missing since Thursday, has been located in Chapel Hill. Parents of Lena Stahl have been looking for the 14-year-old since this past Thursday.

    Michael Stahl, Lena’s father, said this morning she was found safe and okay in Chapel Hill.”


    Comment by
    Nance Confer
    February 25th, 2008
    at 12:06 pm

    JJ, that was my DH’s first thought too. What was going on at home?

    But it is good to hear she is safe and okay.

    Nance


    Comment by
    JJ Ross
    March 5th, 2008
    at 2:54 pm

    CA’s World Net Daily-hyped appellate ruling this week, turns out to all trace back to another 14-year-old girl who ran away, in this case from parents previously investigated for abuse . . .