In re Adoption, Hecker

MAUGHMER, Commissioner.

On February 1, 1968, Vella Lorraine Moss, filed in the Circuit Court of Sullivan County, Missouri, her petition for adoption of William Christopher Moss, a minor child. Attached to the petition was a copy of a written instrument captioned “Consent to Custody and Adoption” which had been *281signed and acknowledged on February 19, 1966 by one Shari Lynn Hecker, who therein described herself as the mother of said child, declared that he was illegitimate and that his father was unknown. On July 20, 1968, the natural mother, as Shari Lynn Wyldes (she having on November 17,…