Page 5 - Consider The Lillies of the Field - My Story: Jill Kemp
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My parents married towards the end of the World War 2. My
grandmother had died when my mother was about 15 years
old and her death affected my mother greatly. She was a wil-ful
child, by all accounts, the centre of attention and spoilt. Her
widowed father found her difficult to control, especially in a
city filled with young Service men! She met my Dad,
“Bluey,” at a tram stop, looking handsome in his Air force
uniform. He did a few wolf whistles, they got married and
shifted down to an airbase near Blenheim. Eighteen months
later I came along. Below: Jill’s Christening photo at aged 6
months in the family heirloom Christening gown, made from her
great aunt’s Evelyn’s wedding dress.
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