Jane Seymour's mother died at 93 · 2007-10-03 14:44
Mieke Frankenberg, mother of actress Jane Seymour and a survivor of 3-1/2 years in a Japanese prisoner of war camp where she tended the sick without access to medicines, has died at the age of 93.
Born in Deventer, Netherlands, she died at her home in Middlesex on Monday of complications from a stroke. Besides Seymour, she is survived by two other daughters, Dr. Anne Gould and Sally Frankenberg, Reuters informs.
Married at age 20, she went to live in Indonesia, then a Dutch colony. The marriage broke up, and during World War II she became a prisoner in a Japanese concentration camp.
During this time she nursed the sick and dying with no medicines, using only her experience as a Red Cross volunteer. After the war she moved to England where she married Dr. John Frankenberg, who died in 1990.
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