Chiffelle, a survivor of Japanese internment camps in World War II, is a naturalized American citizen and political conservative who regularly delivers the opening prayer at Albuquerque Tea Party meetings. A native of Holland whose father was a Shell Oil executive, Chiffelle was 12 years old and living in the Dutch East Indies when she and her mother were ordered into a Japanese internment camp at the beginning of World War II. She said she spent three years in the Tjihapit internment camp, in Bandung, in the western part of the island of Java, working in the kitchen and living primarily on rice. After her detainment ended, Chiffelle returned to Holland and got married. She and her then-husband immigrated to the U.S. in 1960, and she became a naturalized citizen. After her first marriage ended in divorce, Chiffelle met an Albuquerque physician and moved to the city in the early 1970s. Chiffelle told the Journal she started organizing politically oriented breakfasts at the Golden Corral at Eubank and Central several years ago as a way to educate voters about candidates running for office. abqjournal/main/208238/news/irs-zeroed-in-on-abq-breakfasts.html
Posted on: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:39:36 +0000
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