Joan Fowles , circus animal trainer in France Fowles was born * in Liverpol, Merseyside, England United Kingdom Married 1955-09-03 in Southport, Merseyside, England, United Kingdom, to Gösta Kruse born 1927-08-15 Linköping in Sweden . Joan Kruse was a Liverpool girl who joined Bertram Mills Circus at the age of 16, as an usherette and dancer when she was 16 years old. She later joined the Baker Brothers in the riding act, She also did the "Courier of St. Petersburg" and after returning to Mills Bros, she presented a bear act as "Joan's Teddy Bears" In 1951 Gösta Kruse joined Mills, took over the elephants from John Gindl, and in 1955 they married.
1961: In early 1961 Mills were offered to very young orphans found wandering alone in the jungles of Siam. SAFARI aged approx 9 months and TAMU aged approx 6 months old arrived and were hand fed by my parents every 4 hours on a diet of chopped apples, carrots, diluted milk, boiled Patna rice mixed with glucose and Farex. My Mother hated rice pudding till the end of her days after that. Yvonne Kruse
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