Felix Perera [SEP] country of citizenship
Felix Perera
Felix Perera is a Sri Lankan politician, a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka and a government minister.
Kappa in 1910.
In 1922 she married Felix Martin Rathmer, a German born electrical engineer and she lost her American citizenship. She refused to take the naturalization oath because it contained the phrase "bear arms in defense of the country". She did not regain her citizenship until 1944. She became a widow in 1959.
She died on January 21, 1984, at the Leila Y. Post Montgomery Hospital in Battle Creek, Michigan.
External links.
- Rebecca Shelley papers at the University of Michigan