|
|
Article: You can go home again, even at age 95; Edith Wilkes came to Minneapolis in 1953 to be married. Now she's making one last trip back to her native England.(NEWS)
- Article from:
- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- December 20, 2002
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2002 Star Tribune Co. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Byline: Warren Wolfe; Staff Writer
Edith Wilkes remembers the Luftwaffe bombs during World War II that damaged her family's house in Mossley Hill, a village outside Liverpool, England.
She remembers the nights that followed, huddled with her family in a bomb shelter the size of a bus shelter.
She remembers as a girl the food shortages and other privations during World War I; as a young woman the despair and unemployment during the depression between those wars, meeting American serviceman Albert Wilkes in a pub, their long-distance courtship and her trip to Minneapolis to be married.
At age 95, Wilkes will leave her Minneapolis home ...