JOAN Whitby Tomlin was born in 1931 in Maidstone, Kent (UK).
Her mother Mary Jane Smart was a nurse and her father Austin Whitby Tomlin was a mechanical engineer.
Joan was a child of the depression and then a young girl and teenager during WWII.
She left school at 14 and attended Cleves College for a year learning shorthand, typing and bookkeeping after which she worked as a shorthand/typist in a sur...
