Comments on: Revisiting the Past – a Rant http://www.mcclureconnections.com/blog/2008/11/30/revisiting-the-past-a-rant/ Bits and pieces of my life quilt, held together by the Master Designer Wed, 09 Mar 2011 11:57:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Cheryl http://www.mcclureconnections.com/blog/2008/11/30/revisiting-the-past-a-rant/comment-page-1/#comment-853 Cheryl Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:09:18 +0000 http://www.mcclureconnections.com/blog/?p=334#comment-853 Thank you for sharing that article, Gypsy! I was so disgusted with the media when Mrs. Frankenburg died. Her mom's death was "big news" since Jane was on Dancing With the Stars at the time. But I never understood why they wouldn't tell her story. Years ago I saw a biography on TV about Jane's mom, and it really stuck with me. I really hope Jane will write a book about her mother. Thank you for sharing that article, Gypsy! I was so disgusted with the media when Mrs. Frankenburg died. Her mom’s death was “big news” since Jane was on Dancing With the Stars at the time. But I never understood why they wouldn’t tell her story. Years ago I saw a biography on TV about Jane’s mom, and it really stuck with me. I really hope Jane will write a book about her mother.

]]> By: Gypsy at Heart http://www.mcclureconnections.com/blog/2008/11/30/revisiting-the-past-a-rant/comment-page-1/#comment-852 Gypsy at Heart Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:37:24 +0000 http://www.mcclureconnections.com/blog/?p=334#comment-852 I agree and I was so intrigued, I had to look up the info on Jane Seymour's mother. Thank you for pointing me in that direction. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Mieke Frankenberg, mother of actress Jane Seymour and a survivor of 3-1/2 years in a Japanese prisoner of war camp where she tended the sick without access to medicines, has died at age 93, the family said on Tuesday. Born in Deventer, Netherlands, she died at her home in Middlesex on Monday of complications from a stroke. Besides Seymour, she is survived by two other daughters, Dr. Anne Gould and Sally Frankenberg. Married at age 20, she went to live in Indonesia, then a Dutch colony. The marriage broke up, and during World War II she became a prisoner in a Japanese concentration camp. During this time she nursed the sick and dying with no medicines, using only her experience as a Red Cross volunteer. After the war she moved to England where she married Dr. John Frankenberg, who died in 1990. Seymour said of her mother, "Friends and family were most important in her life. ... She would often remind her daughters, 'When life is difficult, do something to help someone else, and your problems will diminish. There is always someone much worse off than you. She was ageless and had the spirit of a lively, effervescent, enthusiastic 21-year-old and only her body let her down,” the 56-year-old actress said in a statement. “She had been through it all, seen horrors up close and chose to see the light and love of God and mankind in every aspect of life,” Seymour said. I agree and I was so intrigued, I had to look up the info on Jane Seymour’s mother. Thank you for pointing me in that direction.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Mieke Frankenberg, mother of actress Jane Seymour and a survivor of 3-1/2 years in a Japanese prisoner of war camp where she tended the sick without access to medicines, has died at age 93, the family said on Tuesday.
Born in Deventer, Netherlands, she died at her home in Middlesex on Monday of complications from a stroke. Besides Seymour, she is survived by two other daughters, Dr. Anne Gould and Sally Frankenberg.
Married at age 20, she went to live in Indonesia, then a Dutch colony. The marriage broke up, and during World War II she became a prisoner in a Japanese concentration camp.
During this time she nursed the sick and dying with no medicines, using only her experience as a Red Cross volunteer. After the war she moved to England where she married Dr. John Frankenberg, who died in 1990.
Seymour said of her mother, “Friends and family were most important in her life. … She would often remind her daughters, ‘When life is difficult, do something to help someone else, and your problems will diminish. There is always someone much worse off than you. She was ageless and had the spirit of a lively, effervescent, enthusiastic 21-year-old and only her body let her down,” the 56-year-old actress said in a statement. “She had been through it all, seen horrors up close and chose to see the light and love of God and mankind in every aspect of life,” Seymour said.

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