Texas woman’s life turned upside down: losses from death, flood, and scam

You work your whole life to get ahead. Stash away enough money for your house, your family, your vacations.

But then, as they say, life happens.

Rubino Maxwell, an 81-year-old retiree from McKinney, Texas, led a life for which she was proud. She was one of the first Black registered nurses at what was once called Plano General Hospital. Her nursing career lasted more than four decades.