Marjorie drucker biography

Marjorie Bong Drucker, a retired magazine publisher who was the widow of World War II “ace of aces” Maj. Richard Bong, has died of cancer at 79 in Superior, Wis.

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Drucker lived for 50 years in Los Angeles, where she was known to friends and associates as an accomplished painter and the editor and publisher of the Boxer Review, an award-winning magazine for owners and breeders of boxers.

Few knew she was once married to a legendary Army Air Forces war hero whose unusual display of affection once made her nearly as famous as he was.

Celebrity status occurred in after Bong, a Wisconsin farm boy who had broken Eddie Rickenbacker’s WWI record of 26 air victories, proclaimed his love by plastering her picture on the nose of his P The fighter plane gained worldwide fame as the “Marge,” and his wife became what Bong teasingly referred to as “the most shot-after girl in the South Pacific.”

Born Marjorie Vattendahl in Grand Forks, N.D., she gr