Sucks To Be This Woman---Maybe

A 75-year-old woman who was adopted by a black couple when she was a young child waited 70 years before discovering that her biological parents were white.

Verda Byrd of Converse, Texas says that she lived her life under the assumption that she was an African-American. 

The woman formerly known as Jeanette Beagle was born in September 1942 into a family of 10 children, according to KENS-TV.

When her father, Earl Beagle, walked out on the family in 1943 and her mother, Daisy, was severely injured after falling in a trolley accident, the children were removed from the home.

She was adopted by Ray and Edwinna Wagner, a financially secure black family in Newton, Kansas

Jeanette was then adopted by Ray and Edwinna Wagner, a financially secure black family in Newton, Kansas, and she grew up as their only child.

The couple then changed the girl’s name to Verda Ann Wagner.

UK Daily Mail