Sarah Brown
A bar manager at a tavern near Waterloo delivered a drink to a customer and listened to her story. The patron’s pregnant 15-year-old sister was moving to Lebanon to live with her, and she didn’t know what to do.
The bar manager, Marjorie Perkins, who had four children of her own, offered to adopt the baby. The birth mother, Veda Spencer, eventually agreed to this arrangement and released to Perkins a healthy girl…