Josephine Eleazar; spirited family to safety

The Boston Globe | April 7, 2008| | Copyright

When Japanese forces occupied the Philippines during World War II, Josephine (Pansacola) Eleazar summoned her indomitable spirit and shepherded her seven children under cover of darkness to huts in the mountains out of harm's way.

"My mother was very feisty, a woman of strong convictions," said her daughter Angela of Brookline.

Mrs. Eleazar, who after the war worked in the Philippines with the mothers and babies abandoned by American GIs, died March 12 of an infection after pneumonia at the home of another daughter, Anna Maria Calingo, in Princeton, N.J.. She was 94 and had lived in Brookline ...

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