Judith Ann Pitre, who was adopted when she was three months old, reunited with her biological siblings after being discovered on social media
For soon-to-turn 83-year-old Judith Ann Pitre of Elliot Lake, fate brought her together with three siblings she has searched for but had never found on her own.Pitre was adopted when she was three months old and placed with a couple who took in orphan children for the Catholic Children’s Aid Society in Windsor. Her adoptive parents had no children of their own and raised children they took in from infants to teenagers.
“There was always something going on,” she said of her relationship with her adoptive parents. She believes her heritage might have resulted in an 'emotional' up-and-down upbringing with her adoptive mother.With her nursing degree, she found work at the local hospital when she and her husband Rej moved to Elliot Lake in 1985. Rej was injured in an underground mine accident and died in 2006 as a result of the injuries he sustained.
About 20 years ago, she sent a DNA sample to the Ancestry app as she searched for siblings she had never met. She eventually called Ancestry to find out whether the search was successful and was told there was no match found. It was her daughter-in-law who discovered someone was looking for her on social media and had received a call from a woman. She told her mother-in-law about the contact. The day after Pitre’s 80th birthday, she received a call “from a lady saying they shared a father.”
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