Marie Ann Victoria SHELLEY (née BAGLIN, aka Fifi / Vickie / Mary) [1937-2013]

A short biography of Marie Anne Victoria BAGLIN, prepared by her nephews Jean-Jacques and Jean Louis Lecoeur.

Born Marie Anne Victoria Baglin, as a young girl she was called Marie-Anne or “Fifi”, but in later years she was known as Vickie.

Born in Hong Kong July 7, 1937, daughter of Genevieve Baglin and Yoc Ma (a Chinese citizen, met in Paris as student).

Appearance: Eurasian, beautiful, dark skin, long hair.

Style: Business woman, strong minded.

Professional Life: in Hong Kong she worked in cinema. As she was fluent in three languages (French, English, & Chinese), she provided translation and administrative services to French film crews who worked in Hong Kong. After she moved to Phoenix, Arizona, she bought apartments, renovated them with her husband and then re-sold them. Later she worked for a large real estate agency, selling buildings.

Family life: married in 1954, aged 17, to Anthony Shelley, a British police officer. They had two children together.

Vickie and Tony Shelley:

Traveling: she had a first trip to France in 1947 with her mother, five weeks onboard MS Champollion. She discovers both a ruined France and his mother's family in misery. She will return several times, keeping on links with her french cousins, without lingering.

As her husband's contract entitled him to six months of vacation every few years, they used these opportunities to travel. Traveling by boat, because her husband does not like airplanes, they visited: Gibraltar, England (where her mother was living), France, and the USA.

She visited France two or three times to re-connect with her family, seeing her aunt Ivana, my mother. They also used to phone each other three or four times a year, talking about the old good time, and complaining about thankless from young peoples.

My brother Jean-Jacques and his wife Jacqueline visited her in March 2000, and met her again in June 2007.

She died june 5 or 6, 2013, at home, Scottsdale (Az), USA.