Jacqueline Major was born in Southhampton, England, the daughter of Major Cecil Henniker Major & Anne Gertrude Johnson Major. Because the Major would be gone for 2 year stints in the British Army on the Gold Coast of Africa, Anne moved she & her two children to Combe Down, Bath to be close to her two sisters. Jackie was primarily raised by her mother, aunts & an uncle in Combe Down. She attended Canning's Private Academy & was about to enter Bristol College in Journalism when WWII began.
She was a clerical secretary for the Bath Admiralty, & was engaged to a British flyer who lost his life during the bombing of the Dortmund, Germany Oil fields. She met her American, Vern Wagner, on a city bus on the way to a USO dance. They married in 1945, & she joined the shiploads of new British wives heading for America in 1946.
Her arrival in Craig, Colorado was a shock, but the couple followed Texaco Oil, Vern's employer, to Casper, Wyoming in 1947. They lived in Casper most of the rest of their lives, raising their two sons, John & Steve. Jackie became a legal secretary, gardened, read & enjoyed friendships with the other British wives in town, retiring in 1988. She was an active grandma, an always proper & kind woman. She is missed. Ashes are buried with Vern's in Casper, Wyoming and with her parents in Monkton Combe, Avon, England. Bio by aj wagner
She was a clerical secretary for the Bath Admiralty, & was engaged to a British flyer who lost his life during the bombing of the Dortmund, Germany Oil fields. She met her American, Vern Wagner, on a city bus on the way to a USO dance. They married in 1945, & she joined the shiploads of new British wives heading for America in 1946.
Her arrival in Craig, Colorado was a shock, but the couple followed Texaco Oil, Vern's employer, to Casper, Wyoming in 1947. They lived in Casper most of the rest of their lives, raising their two sons, John & Steve. Jackie became a legal secretary, gardened, read & enjoyed friendships with the other British wives in town, retiring in 1988. She was an active grandma, an always proper & kind woman. She is missed. Ashes are buried with Vern's in Casper, Wyoming and with her parents in Monkton Combe, Avon, England. Bio by aj wagner
Jacqueline Major was born in Southhampton, England, the daughter of Major Cecil Henniker Major & Anne Gertrude Johnson Major. Because the Major would be gone for 2 year stints in the British Army on the Gold Coast of Africa, Anne moved she & her two children to Combe Down, Bath to be close to her two sisters. Jackie was primarily raised by her mother, aunts & an uncle in Combe Down. She attended Canning's Private Academy & was about to enter Bristol College in Journalism when WWII began.
She was a clerical secretary for the Bath Admiralty, & was engaged to a British flyer who lost his life during the bombing of the Dortmund, Germany Oil fields. She met her American, Vern Wagner, on a city bus on the way to a USO dance. They married in 1945, & she joined the shiploads of new British wives heading for America in 1946.
Her arrival in Craig, Colorado was a shock, but the couple followed Texaco Oil, Vern's employer, to Casper, Wyoming in 1947. They lived in Casper most of the rest of their lives, raising their two sons, John & Steve. Jackie became a legal secretary, gardened, read & enjoyed friendships with the other British wives in town, retiring in 1988. She was an active grandma, an always proper & kind woman. She is missed. Ashes are buried with Vern's in Casper, Wyoming and with her parents in Monkton Combe, Avon, England. Bio by aj wagner
She was a clerical secretary for the Bath Admiralty, & was engaged to a British flyer who lost his life during the bombing of the Dortmund, Germany Oil fields. She met her American, Vern Wagner, on a city bus on the way to a USO dance. They married in 1945, & she joined the shiploads of new British wives heading for America in 1946.
Her arrival in Craig, Colorado was a shock, but the couple followed Texaco Oil, Vern's employer, to Casper, Wyoming in 1947. They lived in Casper most of the rest of their lives, raising their two sons, John & Steve. Jackie became a legal secretary, gardened, read & enjoyed friendships with the other British wives in town, retiring in 1988. She was an active grandma, an always proper & kind woman. She is missed. Ashes are buried with Vern's in Casper, Wyoming and with her parents in Monkton Combe, Avon, England. Bio by aj wagner
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