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June 20, 2010

Anne S. Coffin's Obituary

Anne S. Coffin, age 87, of Indiana, died Sunday, June 20, 2010 at St. Andrew's Village, Indiana. She was born in 1923 in Berlin, Germany to Jacques and Lydia Kisselhoff Lulky. Raised in Brussels, Belgium, she was forced to flee with her family to France in 1940 when Germany invaded Belgium. She received a degree in Art from the University of Aix-Marseilles. During World War II, she served with the French Resistance, helping provide false identification papers to Jewish refugees, and later helped British and American fliers to escape to England. After the war, she served in the French Army as a translator at the Nuremburg War Crimes Tribunal, where she and married her husband Pierre, who was an American Army translator. In 1951, she and her family moved to the Washington, D.C. area, where she worked as a Girl Scout professional, eventually becoming a district director. Later she worked as a guide and interpreter in Washington, once translating for President Gerald Ford at the White House. In 1992 she and her husband moved to Indiana. Anne is survived by her son Allen Coffin and wife Jean, Orlando, FL; by her grandson Andrew Coffin, Orlando, FL. She was preceded in death by her husband Pierre, by her son Francis "Frank" in 2008, Funeral services are private and have been entrusted to Bowser-Minich Funeral Home, Indiana.

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