From left: Susie Munz, Katie Saunders and Jenny Jessup celebrated Mother’s Day with champagne and stories from Katie’s youth. Katie had almost lost hope of finding her birth mother before meeting her last September. Photo courtesy of Katie Saunders.

For the first time in 50 years, Katie Saunders spent this Mother’s Day with her birth mother-a woman she first met last September after searching for her biological parents who met in Haines in the late…