Brian Damage
10-03-2007, 09:40 AM
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Mieke Frankenberg, the mother of Jane Seymour and a survivor of a Japanese concentration camp, has died. She was 92.
Frankenberg died Monday in Hillington, England, of complications from a stroke, said Seymour's publicist, Dick Guttman.
Seymour said her mother was born in Holland and lived in Indonesia during World War II, where she spent more than three years in a Japanese concentration camp. After that, she moved to England, married a doctor named John Frankenberg and had three daughters. Her husband died in 1990.
Seymour, a contestant on ABC's "Dancing With the Stars," said she wouldn't attend Tuesday night's results show as she planned to travel to England.
"She was ageless and had the spirit of a lively, effervescent, enthusiastic 21-year-old and only her body let her down," the 56-year-old actress said in a statement.
Frankenberg died Monday in Hillington, England, of complications from a stroke, said Seymour's publicist, Dick Guttman.
Seymour said her mother was born in Holland and lived in Indonesia during World War II, where she spent more than three years in a Japanese concentration camp. After that, she moved to England, married a doctor named John Frankenberg and had three daughters. Her husband died in 1990.
Seymour, a contestant on ABC's "Dancing With the Stars," said she wouldn't attend Tuesday night's results show as she planned to travel to England.
"She was ageless and had the spirit of a lively, effervescent, enthusiastic 21-year-old and only her body let her down," the 56-year-old actress said in a statement.