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Peachtree City residents hosting Louisiana family

By JOHN MUNFORD
jmunford@TheCitizenNews.com

A Peachtree City mother, along with her daughter, is helping take in her other daughter’s family as they flee from the destruction of Hurricane Katrina in their New Orleans suburb of Mandeville, Louisiana.

Mary Ann Wakefield and her daughter, Sharon McFarland, who also lives in Peachtree City, are hosting Sandra and Terrell Brunet, children Morgan, Anastacia and Hayden Darby and even Patrik Jacobsen, an exchange student from Sweden who the Brunets were hosting, and the two family dogs. The family arrived Monday night, and there’s no telling how long they will stay, Wakefield said.

“We don’t know if it’s going to be six weeks, eight weeks or more,” Wakefield said. “It just depends on what happens down there.”

Although the Brunets’ home was spared much damage save for uprooted trees, electricity may not come back on for weeks or more, Wakefield said. The family is happy to have survived the storm, she added.

“My family is so lucky,” Wakefield said. “I see all these poor, poor people with no place to go.”

The Brunets will also be looking for work: Terrell is a chef who worked in New Orleans and taught at the local culinary institute and Sandra is an interior designer who works with building contractors, Wakefield said.

The children will be enrolling at Booth Middle School and McIntosh High School first thing Tuesday morning, Wakefield added.