Wisconsin woman loses her Corpus Christi father 6 months after being reunited [Video]

Rachal Horn now must find a way to transport Joe Kimball’s remains as she grieves for the father with whom she had just been reacquainted.

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Nearly 30 years ago, Rachal Horn was separated from her father, Joe Kimball, but she never lost hope that one day she would find him.

3NEWS spoke with Horn in May as she searched for Kimball, and with the help of the online community, Horn and Kimball were reunited in July and embraced for the first time in three decades.

“I went from being the girl that never got to say I got to call my dad,” she said. “I never got that and now as a woman I finally got that.”

But just six months after their reunion, tragedy struck: Kimball died suddenly Monday.

“Now I feel like I’m right back to where I was when I was a girl and it’s gone,” she said.

Horn did not say what he died of, but along with …