Biography details
Joan Fowles , circus animal trainer in France
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Joan joined Bertram Mills Circus 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
At the close of Bertram Mills Circus tenting show in 1964 Gösta Kruse ,
Joan Fowles and their daughter Yvonne Kruse left to Cirque Pinder in France where Kruse replaced John Gindl as elephant trainer. Kruse remained with Pinder until his death July 25, 1973 from a Heart
attack.
Children Total: 1 children Born: ?. Yvonne Kludsky