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Name: BIENEMAN, Stella, Mrs

Nee: dau of Thomas Chillingworth

Birth Date: 31 Jan 1920 Kenya

Death Date: Nov 1998 Calne, Wilts

Area: Naivasha

Married: John Richard Bieneman b. 6 Sep 1926 Eton, d. 24 July 2010

Children: Peter J. (10 Jan 1959); Richard; Patrick

Book Reference: Gillett, Hut, William de Villiers

General Information:

William de Villiers - Stella Chillingworth, born on 31 January 1920 (twin). She and her husband retired to Jugglers Cottage, Cherhill, Calne. She died aged 78 years in November 1998. She was married to John R. Bieneman (school master. First housemaster of James House, Duke of York's School in Nairobi)
Dave Lichtenstein: John Bieneman, one of our “younger” Masters, was at the DOYS from  1954-1964.  He was Assistant Housemaster of Delamere (and this is where my first contact with him occurred) before becoming founding Housemaster of James.   He was also Physics Master, School rugby coach and OIC Sea Cadets.   He moved to Cherhill in Wiltshire spending the remaining days of his life, there He was only 83 when he died although he outlived his wife Stella who passed away in 1998. I remembered John Bieneman very well as he was both my Assistant Housemaster (Delamere) and my physics teacher. He was originally Russian.

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