Following is a teaser is from an adoption reunion story extraordinaire. With the mother being 100 years old, and the daughter 68, it’s not often that a reunion of this nature could take place, let alone really happen. Amazing…
A MOTHER has been reunited with her daughter nearly 70 years after giving her up for adoption.
Rena Ward, who turned 100 in November, last saw her daughter in 1942, when she was three months old.
Olwen Cox, now 68, tracked down her mother from across the Atlantic and set up an emotional reunion.
Mrs Cox, a retired teacher living in Canada, traced her relatives through a genealogy website and quickly found herself chatting to half-brother Ron and half-sister Pauline.
She soon arranged a two-week trip, including many visits to Mrs Ward, who lives in St Oswald’s Care Home, in Felling, Gateshead.
But due to the centenarian’s ill health and confused state of mind, it was only towards the end of the stay that Mrs Cox revealed her identity.
She said: “I told her I was that baby, the one she had to give away, and her eyes filled with tears and she grabbed hold of me with both hands.
“I hugged her and she really cried. And, of course, so did I.
Read the full story by Mark Tallentire in the December 29, 2010 edition of The Northern Echo.
