Elizabeth Helen Salembier
CivilianElizabeth Salembier served with the American Red Cross at Eye airfield, Suffolk.
In 1947, a friend from her ARC days, Sue Douglas, introduced her to Guy Mankin in New York. In 1948, they married despite the objections of Mankin's mother, Helen Douglas Mankin, to Elizabeth's Roman Catholic faith.
In 1953, she and Guy moved to Kent, CT and she set up and ran an antiques business on main street. They had three sons.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Type Category: Other
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Brome
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Englewood, NJ 07631, USA | Exact dates not yet known | ||
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Other Married Guy Mankin Jr (1920-1997) |
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| Kent, CT, USA | |||
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Born |
She was the daughter of Elizabeth G (Corrigan) Salembier (1890-1966) and Rene Robert Salembier (1882-1942) | ||
| New York, NY, USA |
Revisions
Sue Douglas Berry and Margaret Keller Douglas oral history interview, 11 November 1977, tape 1, side b: http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ggdp/id/53…
'The Belle of Ashby Street: Helen Douglas Mankin and Georgia Politics' by Lorraine Nelson Spritzer, pg. 148-149 via Google Books
Guy Mankin Jr's obituary: http://www.genealogybuff.com/ct/state/webbbs_config.pl/noframes/read/161
And year of death: http://obits.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/obit.cgi?Surname=northerup%2…
Her mother's grave record: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=159642292
http://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/19/travel/browsing-on-connecticut-s-anti…
490th Bomb Group Unit Personnel / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia