Sheila Freckmann Dillon

Born Edna Sheila McLaughlin, January 12, 1935 in Connecticut, the youngest of five children to Dr. Albert McLaughlin and Edna Howard McLaughlin, Sheila spent her formative years in the warm, extended family atmosphere of Bridgeport. She attended Colby College, in Maine, and was part of the excited youth that had joined the new beginnings of the Kennedy administration — upon her graduation accepting a job at the Central Intelligence Agency in Washington, DC. The life of a “spook” — if not the new beginnings — was ultimately to elude her, however, as she soon met James “Jim” Freckmann of Milwaukee. They were married in Bridgeport on August 22, 1959.

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• May 23, 2022