Eileen Elizabeth MEIKLE

Notes:

Name:
NAUGATUCK Eileen E. (Meikle) Parkinson died Monday, February 23, 2015, in Brooksville, Fla. She was the widow of John E. Parkinson.



Eileen was born June 30, 1922 in Brisbane, Australia. During World War II, she worked for the national manpower workforce for the American military training film office of General MacArthur in Brisbane, then the Dutch military and British military. She met her husband when he served as an M.P. at General MacArthur?s headquarters and they married September 30, 1945, after a brief courtship.

John was discharged from the U.S. Army and returned to his hometown of Naugatuck in November 1945. Eileen waited six months to join him in Naugatuck. She traveled to the U.S. on the war bride ship Mariposa on a 28-day journey, arriving in San Francisco on May 5, 1946, then traveled by train to New York and joined her husband in Naugatuck, where they made their home for 35 years and raised their three daughters.

Eileen worked for Peter Paul Company, Uniroyal and then the Travelers Insurance Company, where she developed her 15-year career as general office manager for a staff of more than 100 workers. She was active in the Insurance Woman?s Organization and was recognized in 1974 as Insurance Woman of the year.

She mentored local high school students by providing them part-time work to learn skills in the data processing field at Travelers Insurance.

She was an active member of the Congregational Church of Naugatuck.

Eileen and John were avid golfers at Hop Brook Country Club, playing in many of the local leagues. In 1980, they retired to Florida, where they enjoyed golfing and traveling for more than 30 years.

She leaves her three children, Eileen E. Williams, Kathleen L. Donovan and Bonnie J. Parkinson; seven grandchildren, Jeremy Dallaire, Rhianna Syvertsen, Keeley E. Phipps, Daniel Ballek, Katelyn J. Donovan, Kellie A. Donovan and Julia Ballek; five great-grandchildren, Colton D. Phipps, Thomas Syvertsen, Emily Dallaire, Alex Dallaire and Veronica Dallaire; her twin brother, Robert Meikle of Australia; and more than 30 nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews in Australia.

Funeral services took place February 27 from the Naugatuck Valley Memorial/Fitzgerald-Zembruski Funeral Home to the Congregational Church of Naugatuck. Burial followed in Connecticut State Veterans Cemetery, Middletown

Posted on Find A Grave created by: Michael Ryley Bradbury

Family/Spouse: John Edward PARKINSON. John (son of Edward James PARKINSON and Edna Louise SLASON) was born on 1 Dec 1920 in Naugatuck, New Haven Co., Connecticut; died on 23 Nov 2012 in Naugatuck, New Haven Co., Connecticut; was buried in Connecticut State Veterans Cemetery, Middletown, Middlesex Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]