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Anne COSTELLO [????-????]

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Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2014-12-08 21:22
Names
Given: 
Anne
Family: 
Costello
Sex: 
Female
Status: 
Deceased
Tags: 
WW2: Refugee at Italian Convent
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Submitted by brian edgar on Fri, 2015-11-13 22:56.

I've found this passage in Fr. Nicholas Maestrini's My Twenty Years With The Chinese (p. 270):

Tall and elderly Mrs. Pat Costello was Irish kindness and goodness personified. Having lost her husband shortly before the Japanese attack, she was trapped in Hong Kong by the war and found refuge in the hostel for women conducted by the Canossian Sisters.

Could this have been Anne Costello's mother? If so, that might explain why she didn't seek repatriation as (presumably) a Canadian.

Submitted by Bob Tatz on Sat, 2015-11-14 00:22.

I well remember Mrs. Costello in the Italian Convent on Caine Road when I too was a refugee in the convent as a pre-teenager. I often used to visit with her and enjoyed her company. I fondly remember how motherly she was towards me; a great lady.