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Herman "Pee Wee" Moseley, 48, GALVESTON: 300 Missing - Tragic "Pee Wee"'s Body Found Washed Up 
THERE was heart-breaking news for Norma Rubin, 66, of High Island (see story second from bottom) as police yesterday identified one of the bodies found washed up over the weekend as Herman Thomas "Pee Wee" Moseley, 48. Norma Rubin's home was also destroyed in the hurricane. "Pee Wee" lived in a trailer in badly-hit Gilchrist.
' rel="nofollow">http://www.myfoxhouston.com/...Y&pageId=3.2.1"]HOUSTON -- One of two bodies found in Galveston County last weekend has been identified as 48-year-old Herman Thomas "Pee Wee" Moseley.
Moseley lived in a trailer in the town of Gilchrist on the Bolivar Peninsula. His badly decomposed body washed up on nearby Goat Island over the weekend.
GALVESTON RESIDENTS are growing restless as 300 people still remain on the "missing persons" register, including Traci Turner of San Diego, whose sister Danielle Chapman, 32, remains unheard from and not seen since Hurricane Ike made a direct hit on the West side of Galveston when it made landfall. Danielle's two sons, Joel, 15, and Addison, 12, of Jamaica Beach, West Galveston, are also missing. Traci Turner is desperate to find out what has happened to her sister and two nephews. Update: 2nd October 2008
' rel="nofollow">http://edition.cnn.com/...8/US/10/02/ike.missing/"]More than 300 people are missing since Hurricane Ike hit the Texas coast last month, and the obstacles to finding them are frustrating family and friends who desperately want to know if their loved ones are dead or alive.
These family and friends want answers: Why are so many still missing? Why has the first organized search for bodies, to be held Thursday on the battered Bolivar Peninsula, taken so long?
Local and state authorities are conducting Thursday's search and have been working with the Laura Recovery Center, a missing persons organization. The center helped compile a list of missing people and police are using the information to go door-to-door looking for answers.
"We are hopeful most of these people will be found, that a lot of them were evacuated to shelters, or don't even know they've been listed as missing," said Bob Walcutt, executive director of the Laura Recovery Center in Friendswood, Texas. iReport.com: Are you looking for loved ones?
"We are hoping to get more answers as people call in or as school starts, but another week with this number could be a different story," he said.
As of Thursday morning, the number of missing hovered at 300, including 24 children. Laura Recovery Center volunteers, working with the Galveston Police Department and Galveston Emergency Management, have been fielding calls from family and friends of people missing since Ike hit September 12.
A majority of the missing come from the hardest-hit Texas towns of Crystal Beach, Port Bolivar, Gilchrist, Texas and Galveston.
Traci Turner, of San Diego, California, doesn't know where her sister Danielle Chapman is. The last time she spoke to her was right after Hurricane Gustav hit the Gulf Coast, about a week before Ike came ashore.
At that time, Turner's sister Danielle Chapman said she and her family, who were on the west end of Galveston Island, were all OK.
Chapman, 32, and her sons Joel, 15, and Addison, 12, lived in a home at the far west end of island, past Jamaica Beach.
Turner said despite arduous online searching she has seen no news or photos about that area, and has heard nothing from her sister and nephews since Hurricane Ike.
"My heart is hurting. This is my little sister and I love her to death," Turner told CNN.
"These are her kids. I love them to death and they are gone. I don't want to say it -- maybe they have been washed out, maybe they haven't -- maybe they are in a shelter. Either way, they are still missing."
Adding confusion to her search,Turner said, the recovery center took her sister and nephews off the list because someone called to say he or she knew their whereabouts.
Turner hasn't been able to talk to the person who called in the tip. So without any proof that her family is still alive, she cannot rest easy.
"Not until I hear a voice or see pictures of them," she said.
FORTY persons reported missing have now been found and the number still missing is 365 including 26 children and many elderly people. Two bodies have been found washed up on Galveston Beach.
' rel="nofollow">http://www.chron.com/...metropolitan/6031153.html"]The Houston-area death toll from Hurricane Ike has reached 32 with the discovery this weekend of two unidentified bodies along the shore in Galveston County and the body of a Port Neches man found in Orange County.
Meanwhile, 40 people who went missing during Hurricane Ike have been reported found, according to dozens of calls received by Laura Recovery Center's hot line. However, the hot line also received about 16 new cases, leaving its count of storm-related missing persons at 365, according to an estimate from Bob Walcutt, executive director.
Walcutt said privacy laws that keep hospitals and shelters from confirming the location of evacuees and patients have kept many families apart.
"Because of that, we've got people who are desperately looking for loved ones who are safe in shelters," he said.
Walcutt said he hoped the list of missing will be pared down significantly in the next week or two to those who "really are missing."
His current list includes many elderly people and at least 26 children. Most of the missing live in Galveston County, more than 50 from the Bolivar Peninsula alone.
26th Sept 2008 ANGUISHED relatives and friends are clinging onto hopes that those still missing in the devastated area of Galveston will turn out to be safe and sound. The Bolivar Peninsula was in the direct path of the furious Hurricane Ike, which caused unexpectedly high surges in the Gulf's normally shallow waters.
' rel="nofollow">http://www.beaumontenterprise.com/...26-2008.html"]Norma Rubin of High Island hasn't given up hope that her son, Herman "PeeWee" Thomas Moseley, will be found.
She last heard from him Sept. 12. He was still at his Gilchrist home as the storm surge from Hurricane Ike was rising.
Only a few homes remain intact in Gilchrist.
"We're still not giving up," said Rubin, 66, whose home in High Island also was destroyed by Ike.
Moseley is one of dozens of Bolivar Peninsula residents listed as missing on the Laura Recovery Center's Web site. More than 400 people are listed on the center's Web site from Galveston, Harris, Chambers and Jefferson counties.
The center is providing assistance to help those searching for loved ones, according to a news release from Beaumont police officer and spokeswoman Crystal Holmes.
Family members and other loved ones have been calling in reports of the missing, said Terry Arnold, one of the center's founding volunteers. Those missing could have evacuated and be just fine, but they haven't gotten or aren't able to get in touch with family members. Still others might not have returned home yet.
"It's hard to know how many are missing," Arnold said.
Arnold said the center's officials are working with FEMA and the Red Cross to see if people are in shelters elsewhere.
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FOUR hundred people have been officially reported missing and have not been seen or heard of since Hurricane Ike struck twelve days ago. With the chaotic power supplies and with communication problems, families are hoping that they will be reunited with their loved ones soon. Ominously, perhaps, many of the missing are from the worst hit areas, such as Bolivar and Gilchrist.
Nearly 400 people are presumed missing 12 days after Hurricane Ike slammed on shore. Calls flooded a Galveston County missing persons hotline at the Laura Recovery Center. People are terrified a relative was lost in the storm.
After days of waiting, some families got the answers they've prayed for.
"Someone just called in from Clear Creek ISD off a call we had made and said they have located some people associated with the school district and said they were safe and well in Texas City," said Terry Arnold with the Laura Recovery Center.
But hundreds more wait for word as their loved ones names fill an online hurricane missing persons database. Those on the list share some commonalties in age and geography.
"There are a lot of elderly folks, just looking at the age column," said Smither.
Many of them are from the hardest hit areas of the county, including Boliver, Crystal Beach and Gilchrist.
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