After a life long marriage Valerie Spruill from Ohio discovered that her husband turned out to be her long lost father. The 60- year-old lady discovered the truth 6 years after her husband’s death.
Here is what happened, according to Beacon Journal columnist Bob Dyer:
Spruill was sent to live with her grandparents when she was just 3 months old. She was told that her grandfather was her father and that her mother was a “family friend.” Her biological mother was a “night lady” who was jailed on sex charges in 1980. Her biological father was Percy Spruill, who was 15 when he met Valerie’s mother.
Valerie and Percy later married. Throughout their marriage, Valerie said she heard rumors that Percy was her father, according to the Akron Beacon Journal. In April 1998, Percy died at the age of 60. In 2004, an uncle told Valerie the rumors were true, and a DNA test confirmed it.
Spruill, who has three children and eight grandchildren, is now telling her story in an attempt to find her other siblings from her father.
‘It needs to be told, because children need to know where they come from,’ she told the Akron Beacon Journal. ‘And I know it hurts, because I have been devastated by this.’
