Amnesia Victim Joins Her Family

Mary Joyce Howard, lost for two years as an amnesia victim living in an Oklahoma nursing home as Jane Doe, was reunited with her family in High Point, N.C. Her parents, brother and sister-in-law were waiting as a doctor and two paramedics, all volunteers, arrived with her following an 18-hour drive from Oklahoma City. Howard was injured in a hit-and-run highway accident in February 1998 and underwent major brain surgery. Her identity was finally unlocked during a recent hospital stay for pneumonia, when she suddenly remembered her Social Security number.