‘Life has been good’ Jackie Fillebaum, English war bride, now a Bovina gal

Published 1:01 am Sunday, November 20, 2011

‘I was all set to discard my school clothes and get a nice navy blue suit and high heels and start a normal life where I was going to be dating and life was just beginning.’ But on Jackie Fillebaum’s first day at work, England declared war on Nazi Germany, ‘and everything went just the opposite of what I had planned.’ (Eli Baylis)

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