Woman in Her 90s Reunites with Toddler She Saved from Drowning 64 Years Ago, ‘Goose Bumps’ (Watch)

A woman who rescued a drowning toddler from a pool has met him again for just the second time—64 years later.

CBS 8 San Diego was live at the reunion organized by siblings of Ben Colwell, now 66, with his savior Barabara Ribeiro—now 94.

She was Barbara Urban back then—in 1961 when she made the front page of the San Diego Sentinel. In her thirties, she was attending a party when word spread through the guests that a baby had vanished. Fanning out to search the neighborhood, she says she doesn’t know why she picked the house she did, but it was the right one.

21-month-old Colwell had wandered about a block away from the party and fell into the pool. Ribeiro described the scene—of Colwell’s body down at the bottom of the pool—as “scary frightening.” She jumped in, pulled him out, and performed both mouth-to-mouth and CPR on the instructions of a neighbor who knew how.

Though the families kept in touch, it wasn’t long before Colwell’s family moved out of the San Diego area. Meeting each other for the first time in 64 years, Ribeiro, who warned the TV crews she was liable to cry, welcomed Colwell, saying “hello, hello young man!”

Now a business owner and father of two, Colwell said it was so nice to see her.

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“Yeah the only thing that I had ever heard someone say, I think it was my mom, telling me that when you guys found me there wasn’t any bubbles coming up no, so no one knew how long I had been down there,” said Colwell at the reunion.

“When I really think of it, I think ‘hand of God,’” said Ben. “He made sure that I made it for some reason.”

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