. . "Pauline Howard: personal papers"@eng . "Pauline Lilly Okonski was born in Lautenburg, Grandenz (now Grudziadz, Poland), in 1915. She worked as an office clerk in Berlin in the 1930s. In 1938 she got married to Herbert Markstein (born 1914). The couple emigrated to Shanghai in 1939. After their divorce, she got remarried to Lt William Dorace Howard (born 1924) of the U.S. Navy, with whom she moved to the United States in 1947. She obtained U.S. citizenship in 1950."@eng . "Pauline Howard: personal papers"@eng . .