In Memory of Larry Fitzpatrick [March 31, 1949 - Dec 6, 2007]
    and his son Mike [May 1, 1970 - Dec 15, 2006]

Larry Fitzpatrick was searching for his child in Germany. He only knew the given name of the mother, no surname nor a place name. We found his son Mike on September 1, 2006, only six days before Mike had to go to the hospital to await a heart transplant. Due to an inflammation of the heart muscle his heart was so badly damaged that a heart transplant became inevitable. A donor heart became available on November 22, 2006. The surgery went well and his wife and two children were expecting him to be home for Christmas.
Mike was born May 1, 1970. Sadly Mike died after a severe, second repulsive reaction on December 15, 2006 at the age of only 36 years, leaving behind his wife Anette and their two lovely children Johanna, 5 years of age and Paul 1 year of age. I am adding this photo here with Anette's permission.


Finding his son after all these years but being unable to visit him was an extremely upsetting situation for Larry. But it got even worse when Mike died and, due to circumstances out of Larrys control, he was unable to travel to Germany to his sons funeral. Larry was extremely saddened about his sons death and losing him a a second time. He told me many times that he never thought that one of his children would die before him but that he would die first because he was so extremeley ill. He was very confident that Mike would make it through.

Larry had a number of life threatening health issues himself but was hoping so much that Mike would get well again and that he could visit him, his wife and children after the heart transplant. It never happened.

For many years Larry fought very hard but in the end he lost the battle.
Larry departed this world on December 6, 2007 at the age of 58 years. Larry was buried on his sons death day, December 15 in 2007 in Carver Memorial Gardens in Birmingham, Alabama.

Larry's story in English / german / french and his latest plea for legal aide explaining in detail the circumstances which prevented him from travelling to Germany.

I am keeping Larry's story on this site as a tribute to a father and his son who are finally reunited, in eternity.

Larry wanted his story to serve as a reminder to mothers to tell their children the truth about their fathers who might be searching for their children but have insufficient information to locate them.