Mother Finally Finds Her Baby’s Grave After 35 Years

The following teaser is from an article by Erica Bajer, posted at the vancouver.24hrs.ca website.

ST. CATHARINES, Ont. – After 35 years of grief, Wendy Renaud is finally at peace.

She has found the grave of the baby daughter she lost in 1977.

“Seeing her resting place will be the closure I need,” Renaud said. “The last piece of my heart will be back together.”

It’s a place she’s always yearned to find.

“I didn’t know how to go about it,” she said.

With the help of her daughter-in-law, Mandy Holden, Renaud now knows where her baby was buried in Guelph, Ont.

Melissa Mary Marlene Wright died when she was three hours old due to a series of medical problems including an enlarged heart and lungs.

She was buried in the baby vault at Woodlawn Memorial Park in Guelph.

Read the full article.

About Leland Meitzler

Leland K. Meitzler founded Heritage Quest in 1985, and has worked as Managing Editor of both Heritage Quest Magazine and The Genealogical Helper. He currently operates Family Roots Publishing Company (www.FamilyRootsPublishing.com), writes daily at GenealogyBlog.com, writes the weekly Genealogy Newsline, conducts the annual Salt Lake Christmas Tour to the Family History Library, and speaks nationally, having given over 2000 lectures since 1983.

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