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• Real FotherHOUSTON (AP) - A daugh-k tor of Candace Mossier has Us-i- tiffed the - lele--millionairess i once told her that the daugh-t ter’s real father was the late i Winthrop Rockefeller. t Rita Johnson Wilder, S3, testified Friday in the trial on the t validity of a 1975 supplement lo f Mrs. MossIcr's Will that dls*• inherits three of Mrs. Mossier’s s’ adopted children. Two of the 3 adopted children, Daniel and r Christopher, are. con I es tin g theamendment In probate court.Attorney John Holloway, rep-?. resenting the (wo adopted ch! 1-• dren, prompted the testimony r from Mrs. Wilder during cross-; examination by asking If Mrs. j: Mossier ever told her Ihal I Winthrop Rockefeller, a formerArkansas governor, was her fa-i ther.I Yes, Mrs. Wilder responded.Holloway asked * her If It . didn't seem odd or strange to her that her mother would tell her Rockefeller was her real father when her birth certificate lists a Norman Johnson as her natural father, Johnson was Mrs. Mossier’* husand prior to her marriage to the hie Jacques Mossier.Mrs. Wilder said she didn't find it odd that a mother would confide jn her daughter,Mrs. Mossier died last year at the age of.62. She was tried and acquitted . of murder charges in 1966 In the death of Jacques Mossier.
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Florence Morning News
Florence, South Carolina, US
Mon, Sep 05, 1977
Page 21
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