McLaren, Goffinet

Goffinet (nee Hutton) was born just weeks after the end of WWII and grew up in Carrickfergus, a small historic town on the waters edge of Northern Ireland. Although hostilities with Germany had ceased, her father, Tom, was still actively immersed in his post-war RAF duties. The war was not a topic of regular conversation in her home, but Goffinet was inevitably aware of her fathers wartime escape after he had bailed out of an RAF bomber over occupied Europe in 1943. In 1979, Goffinet moved to the United States where she married her husband Ian, also a native of N. Ireland. When Ian retired, th...