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Article: Artist did vital secret work in the war.
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- Leighton Buzzard Observer (Leighton Buzzard, England)
- Article date:
- May 13, 2008
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A FORMER Woburn artist who left her Leighton Road home of more than 50 years to live with her son at Barton-on-Sea on the south coast has died aged 94.
Josephine Mahoney of Birdcatcher's Cottage passed away on May 2.
Elsie Margaret Mahoney was born in Cambridgeshire in 1914 and Josephine was soon adopted as her first name.
She trained as a milliner, designing hats and then dresses, with her drawings being sold mainly in Paris.
At the outbreak of World War Two, she joined the Women's Auxillary Air Force and worked in Bomber Command, interpreting aerial photographs.
She went on to work for the Special Operation Executive and ...