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Eleanor & Claude Whitehead, 1945

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DebraW Bergner

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02/12/2012

Eleanor & Claude Whitehead, 1945

Eleanor Nordene Sturman married SSgt Claude Jacob Whitehead, US Marine Corps on November 6, 1945 in San Diego, California. He was her older brother's best friend in the Marines and she was his pen pal during WWII. They met face to face for the first time in 1944 when he was recovering from an illness picked up on Guadalcanal. They were happily married for 40 years until his passing in 1986 from cancer.
People in photo include: Eleanor Nordene (Sturman) Whitehead and Claude Jacob Whitehead

Date & Place: November 6, 1945 at Chapel in San Diego, California USA

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Filipe Medeiros

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02/12/2012

Wow! So they fell in love via correspondence? What a romantic story, and just before Valentine's Day!

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DebraW Bergner

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02/13/2012

They did, and she still has every one of his letters, war-censored and all. The neatest ones are the V-mails, a sort of mini-fax--pre-email type of message.

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Eleanor Nordene Sturman Whitehead born Sep 3, 1923

Eleanor Nordene Sturman Whitehead was born on September 3, 1923. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Eleanor Nordene Sturman Whitehead.

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