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By Julie Pfitzinger - For The Catholic Spirit
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Thursday, 05 November 2009 |
In 1957, when an unmarried 21 year-old Jackie Maher surrendered her newborn daughter to Catholic Charities for adoption, she was emphatically told she would never see her child again. However, something in Maher’s heart told her otherwise.
Jackie Maher, right, reconnected with her daughter Katie DeCosse 50 years after giving her up for adoption. Photo by Dave Hrbacek / The Catholic Spirit
Maher said she “just put one foot in front of the other” after the baby was born and went on with her life, eventually marrying and raising five children. Three years ago, Maher, now 74 and a parishioner at St. Vincent de Paul in Brooklyn Park, began actively searching for her daughter.
“I was getting older and wanted to find her, find out if she had any questions only I could answer,” Maher explained, adding that at the time, her other children had no knowledge of their sibling. “I didn’t have any idea about the kind of relationship that would come out of our reunion,” she said.
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