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Versatile Mrs Stephenson a Real Life Jack of All Trades
Katrina Stephenson wife of Gen Wilson H Stephenson director of Civil Defense in the Sarasota area is praised as a world trotting opera singer sculptor harpist artist and WWII company commander. Born in Cornwall she lived across Devon India and Spain before studies in France the Royal Academy of Music and Trieste. She joined the British Auxiliary Territorial Service after escaping German authorities in World War II and later met and married Gen Stephenson in Elizabeth City North Carolina two years after a quick proposal.
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Katrina Stephenson
Wilson H. Stephenson
Civil Defense
Sarasota
Stephenson
Mineola Drive
Truro
England
Katrina
British Auxiliary Territorial Service
France
Royal Academy of Music
London
Tetrazzini
Luisa Tetrazzini
Trieste
Germany
Land of Hitler
Red Cross
Auxiliary Territorial Service
Philadelphia
United States
Elizabeth City
N.C