She was a glamorous globetrotter who lived a full and expansive life. A California girlhood [Glendale, Southgate, Malibu] was just the start. She married Donald McGirk, an oil explorer for Texaco, and ventured off to farflung places. Their only son, Tim, was born in Bogota. Jeanne lived in Panama, Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Spain, Britain, Hong Kong, and spent her final 15 years in Santa Cruz, California, where her father Rufus had learned to ride the waves in the 1890s and one of her grandsons earned his college degree at UCSC in 2006. Warmhearted, but with a wicked sense of humor. A real trooper.
More to come....am trying to recall some of her catchphrases...such as 'Money, marbles, chalk'
Comments welcome. Through blogger or emailed to me (jan.mcgirk@gmail.com) Click on photos to enlarge or zoom in...
Jeanne was a sorority girl at University of Southern California. She's the beauty on the far left, pictured with other pledges of Alpha Gamma Delta c 1939 at USC
Quite a transformation from the little blonde on the right in the family photo below:
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