In the Summer of 1969 after the events of the summer Anna Johnson went missing and was found days later laying face down near the Codorus Creek in Bantz Park. Anna Johnson was the Great-Grandmother of one of York's most famous and accomplished citizens Loretta Claiborne.

Loretta Claiborne was born on August 14, 1953, in York, Pennsylvania. She was the fourth of eight children, and she and her siblings were raised by their single mother, Rita Claiborne. Loretta Claiborne was born partially blind, with an intellectual disability and clubbed feet; she underwent surgeries to correct her feet and visual impairment when she was young, and was unable to walk until she was four years old. She learned to talk when she was seven. Although doctors advised Claiborne's mother to institutionalize the girl, Rita steadfastly refused, choosing to raise Claiborne at home with her other children.

Loretta Claiborne was the middle of seven children in a poor, single-parent family. Born partially blind and intellectually challenged, she was unable to walk or talk until age four. Eventually, though, she began to run. And before she knew it, she had crossed the finish line of twenty-six marathons, twice placing among the top one-hundred women in the Boston Marathon. She introduced President Bill Clinton at the 1995 Special Olympics World Summer Games has won medals in dozens of its events, and also holds the current women's record in her age group for the 5000 meters at seventeen minutes.

Learn more about Loretta Claiborne at http://www.lorettaclaiborne.com

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