Rita May Wenberg was removed from her family at an early age and sent to Burnside Presbyterian Orphan Home in Sydney, and then to Cootamundra Aboriginal Girls' Home. Wenberg worked in houses in the Cootamundra district. At the age of sixteen Wenberg left to go to Sydney but was sent to Parramatta Girls' Home, then to another Home before going to work near Camden.

Wenberg's story was recorded by the National Library of Australia for the Bringing Them Home oral history project and appeared in the associated publication Many Voices: Reflections on experiences of Indigenous child separation, edited by Doreen Mellor and Anna Haebich (2002).