She had an easy natural beauty wrote jill adding that neilia. In jill biden s autobiography where the light enters jill describes meeting joe biden s then wife neilia in the winter of 1972. Neilia biden s station wagon was hit by a tractor trailer truck as she pulled out from an intersection.
Senate election in delaware his first wife neilia and one year old daughter naomi were killed in an automobile accident while christmas shopping in hockessin delaware. On december 18 1972 a few weeks after joe biden won the u s. According to the independent neilia biden née neilia hunter was born in 1942 in upstate new york.
Joe biden s first wife neilia was the brains behind the operation. Joe biden s ongoing recovery from the trauma of the deaths of his first wife and youngest child have dramatically shaped his career from the ways in which he speaks to crowds about grief and. Neilia was the daughter of diner owners in upstate new york according to the new yorker and was born on july 28th 1942 in skaneateles.
Joe biden met his first wife neilia in college. Senate in delaware when his first wife neilia hunter biden decided to take the couple s three children to get a christmas tree. It was 1972 and joe biden had just been elected to the u s.
When joe biden recently announced that he would be running for president in the 2020 election people immediately began looking more closely at the man. Meet joe biden s first wife.
