Anacker Family Article
in the
San Jose Mercury News

This wonderful article appeared in the major newspaper of Silicon Valley on Christmas Eve 2003 featuring the Anacker Family. Here is the link to the article on the website of the San Jose Mercury News. The picture below appeared on the front page of the paper, about 8 x 7 inches!!

Published on December 24, 2003, San Jose Mercury News (CA)
FAMILY'S FIRST CHRISTMAS

Every Christmas Eve, the four members of the Anacker family put sleeping bags on the living room floor and spend the night around the Christmas tree. Tonight, there will be nine of them.

Marilyn and Jon Anacker, who are in their 50s and have two college-age sons at home, are spending their first Christmas with the five Russian children -- all siblings ranging in age from 9 to 14 -- they adopted from a Vladivostok orphanage four months ago. The San Jose couple hopes the Christmas Eve...(the remainder of the article is in the online archives of the San Jose Mercury News).