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EXCEPTIONAL SENIORS

They released her, but one of the Angel thought highly of Americans,
arresting secret police walked her and Texas specifically, long before she
out with a machine gun. Looking came to this country, from reading
back, she knew God was warning German author Karl May’s books
her. The hours she had been about the Llano Estacado, to hearing
detained, along with the offensive her uncle’s account of being a POW
remarks being hurled at her at cook in Texas and being elevated to the
gun point, tested her nerves. She position of personal chef to General
was tempted to answer him, but it Lucius Clay. Then there was American
was like a voice was saying to her, radio, American friends, and of course,
“Don’t answer him … ignore that, the love of an American soldier, who
or you will be gone, and no one solidified her love for this country.
will know what happened to you.”
“I always felt a great debt to Lubbock. It would
When her turbulent first marriage ended, Angel had take two angels and a prophecy to get me to leave
no interest in dating, but a colleague at the salon where Lubbock,” she said with a smile.
she worked set her up with Tom, an American soldier.
Tom not only fell in love with Angel but also her son
Markus, whom he later adopted. They were married, Angel is currently a ministering elder at Church on the Rock
and two years later their daughter, Christina, was born and actively involved in the prayer ministry.
at a hospital in the American sector.

In 1970, they returned to the U.S., and six years later,
on July 4th, the year of the 200th birthday of the United
Stated, she became a citizen.

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