On July 2, 2006, she received a phone call from a man in Alabama. He started asking the elderly woman about her background. Worried about identity theft, Mrs Disbrow refused to answer any questions. Then, the man asked if she’d like to speak with her daughter Betty Jane - whose name was now Ruth Lee.
Mrs Lee had been raised by a Norwegian pastor and his wife and had gone on to marry and have six children.
One of her son’s is the astronaut Mark Lee, a veteran of four space flights who has circled the world 517 times.
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