Remember, she moved to Australia, was an Australian citizen, and came to the United States in 1990 to marry Mr. Danley.
I think her command of English should be more than adequate to accurately express herself.
Is there any information why Marilou divorced her husband Geary after 25 years of marriage?
I was in the Marine Corps. I've been around a lot of Filipino wives. It is very normal for them to mangle the English language. If you are around them a lot, you even start to understand them better than they understand you.