Who is Jeanette Gagne Norton from The Greatest Generation and what is their importance?

Jeanette Gagne Norton is from a Minneapolis suburb. She meets and marries Camille Gagne. She is pregnant when he leaves for basic training and ships overseas without even seeing his son, Robert. The baby is seventeen months old when Camille is killed. Jeanette eventually marries William Norton and his three daughters. She becomes a widow again in 1993, after forty-five years of marriage.