70 years After She Was Told Her Child Died In Labour, Mother And Daughter Re-unite

Genevieve Purinton says she was told that her daughter died shortly after birth in 1949.

“I asked to see the baby and they said she died, that’s all I remember,”

said Purinton, now 88.

But it turned out that daughter, Connie Moultroup, 69, was adopted and lived most of her life not knowing her biological mother.

On Dec. 3, the two reunited after a journey that began with an “Ancestry” DNA testing kit, a gift Moultroup received from her own daughter last Christmas.

Now a great-grandmother, Purinton and Moultroup finally locked eyes at the elder’s home in the Haley Park Apartments retirement community in Tampa, Florida.

For nearly 70 years, an American woman Genevieve Purinton believed the baby she gave birth to in Indiana had died in the hospital.

However on Monday, 3rd December, she met that baby girl, now a 69-year-old woman named Connie Moultroup.

“Because she was an unmarried mother, she was told that I had died.

She continued with her life not knowing I was still alive”

Moultroup, who was adopted and raised in California, decided last year to use a DNA ancestry test to look for her birth mother. The two finally met in Tampa on Monday. “It was just a crying fest,” she said.