Background
Suzanne was born to John Evans (a miner) and Alice Louisa Whitlow in Walhalla (Victoria, Australia) in 1893.
Suzanne was born to John Evans (a miner) and Alice Louisa Whitlow in Walhalla (Victoria, Australia) in 1893.
After her August 30, 1929 marriage to the celebrated explorer Sir George Hubert Wilkins, she was known as Lady Hubert Wilkins. She died in New York in December 1974, and her ashes were scattered at the North Pole from United States Ship Bluefish on 4 May 1975, as were her husband"s from United States Ship Skate in 1959. At the time she was living in Saint Kilda.
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Bennett survived the war, returning to Australia in 1919 but clearly the marriage did not last and by 1923, Suzanne was in New York looking for work on Broadway. Prior to her departure she had stage experience, first in the chorus of the Rigo Grand Opera Company, and later with Hugh Doctorate. McIntosh"s productions. Mississippi Bennett and her illustrious explorer husband were sufficiently famous to warrant a marriage announcement in the September 9, 1929 issue of Time Magazine.
There it was reported that the famous Australian couple had wed in Cleveland, Ohio.
That notice also credits Mississippi Bennett with having appeared on stage in "Vanities" and "".
The couple met on June 20, 1928, in New York City during a reception honoring Wilkins after his famed flight over the Arctic Sea. The couple had no children during their twenty nine years of marriage.