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Title: Mrs Frederick Pleasants-New Jersey
Post by: Dannemois on Monday 18 April 16 21:00 BST (UK)
Gift From America –Jan 1948
On the occasion of the wedding of Princess Elizabeth to the Duke of Edinburgh a Mrs Frederick Pleasants of Upper Montclair, New Jerseys sent a quantity of food parcels as a token of the strong ties between our two nations.  A widow in my home village was selected to receive one of these gifts.  Can anyone tell me anything about Mrs Pleasants 
Thanks in advance
Title: Re: Mrs Frederick Pleasants-New Jersey
Post by: shellyesq on Monday 18 April 16 22:29 BST (UK)
I think she was Blanche Rhoades Pleasants.

1910, 1920, & 1930 census -

https://familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&query=%2Bgivenname%3Ablanche%20%2Bsurname%3Apleasants%20%2Bspouse_givenname%3Afrederick

passport application - https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVJG-LV11

She appeared to make many overseas trips. 
Title: Re: Mrs Frederick Pleasants-New Jersey
Post by: shellyesq on Monday 18 April 16 23:11 BST (UK)
This appears to be Frederick and Blanche's son Frederick - https://www.monumentsmenfoundation.org/the-heroes/the-monuments-men/pleasants-frederick-r.  Sounds like an interesting man!

An obituary for the elder Frederick - http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=charles-parker&id=I12436
Title: Re: Mrs Frederick Pleasants-New Jersey
Post by: shellyesq on Monday 18 April 16 23:16 BST (UK)
This seems to be Virginia's husband Sigfrid - http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?r103:S29AP3-861:  Quite a family!