Mother and Daughter Separated for 50 Years Find Each Other on Facebook

Facebook proved just how far its powers of connecting people really go when it helped to reunite a mother and a daughter who had been separated for nearly half a century.
Stephanie Phillips used the social network site to track down her mother Joan Wehrmeyer who she had last been with as a baby in the 1960s.

The pair shared an emotional embrace when they finally met in the Two Georges restaurant at Deerfield Beach on Tuesday, less than a month after they had been reconnected through Facebook

Ms Wehrmeyer, then known under her maiden name of Courchene, was just 17 when married Richard Botwin.

Stephanie was born soon afterwards, but after falling out with her husband’s family Joan told CBS4 news she felt she had no option but to go, leaving her daughter in the care of Botwin.[related

While Stephanie stayed with her father in New Jersey, her mother, who is now 67, moved to South Florida and remarried. She went on to have one child naturally and adopted another. She now lives in Coral Springs.]

Stephanie, now 48, who lives in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania described meeting her mother as a dream come true.