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Personal data Wilma Jeanne Gronert 


Household of Wilma Jeanne Gronert

(1) She is married to William Henry Bliss.

They got married in the year 1946 at Westminster, England, UK, she was 25 years old.


(2) She is married to Mortimer Irvin Slavin.

They got married in the year 1968 at Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, USA, she was 47 years old.


Notes about Wilma Jeanne Gronert

Jeanne Slavin was born Wilma Jeanne Gronert in 1920, of Dutch parents in the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia. Aged 14 she moved to The Hague in the Netherlands, completing her schooling there and at a Swiss finishing school. Following nursing training and during WWII, she worked in hospitals in occupied Holland. Immediately after the war she continued with the Irish Red Cross as an interpreter-nurse in Kiel, northern Germany.

She met and married a British naval officer, William H. Bliss, who got his B.A. in jurisprudence at Oxford and then taught at the University of Pittsburgh in the United States, taking his Ph.D. shortly before quitting that Cathedral of Learning. She and Dr. Bliss went to Turkey in 1959 where both taught English at the country's Naval Academy, living on an island in the Sea of Marmara, near Istanbul. They returned to the USA after five years and were subsequently divorced.

They had three children a son, Mark, in business in Oxford; daughter, Penelope, recently teaching school in Jakarta, Indonesia; and a daughter, Anushka, who established and manages an infants' day care center in Oakland, Calif.

During her early years in the United States, Jeanne obtained a B.A. in education from the University of Pittsburgh and an M.A. from Temple University in Philadelphia. For many years she taught school in Pittsburgh and later in Wilkes Barre, Penn.

In 1968 Jeanne married Dr. Mortimer Slavin, a Wilkes Barre oral surgeon who brought two sons into the marriage. On his retirement, they moved to Green Valley where both played tennis, hiked, and participated in several charitable activities. Jeanne was a keen bridge partner & Mort an avid photographer. Dr. Slavin died in 2007.

In later years she had the companionship of Alexander Reed who shared many of her experiences and interests. Jeanne is survived by her three children, two stepchildren, Jeff and Eric Slavin, of Knoxville, TN. and Lebanon, PA respectively, eight grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.

Published in Green Valley News & Sun on Mar. 25, 2015.

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    Birthday October 14, 1920

    • The temperature on October 14, 1920 was between 2.7 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (45%). The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
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      • The Netherlands had about 6.8 million citizens.
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      • February 10 » Józef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
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