Aline (front-right) in a small wooden boat with her older sister Mya and cousins Peter and Cathy Econom — the Long Island Sound, mid- to late-1960s, from the bungalow era. The cousins came in from California on summer visits; the bulkhead at 104 Asharoken Avenue is the shoreline behind them.
Aline Athena (Jeannopoulos) Pepe is the youngest of John Lazare and Ines Valda’s three daughters. Her sister Myriam “Mya” Durso (adopted) was eleven years older; her sister Eftichia “Claudine” Boyhan (biological, born ~1950 in Tunis) was six years older. She married Nick Pepe and lives in upstate New York.
Growing up in Washington Heights
Per her own May 2026 testimony: she grew up in Washington Heights during the school week — in the same apartment building as her Aunt Alina and Uncle Takis, with whom her grandmother Eftyhia (“Nene”) also lived. The 370 Fort Washington Avenue address on Alina’s 1948 naturalization certificate is almost certainly that same building. Weekends, the family went out to “the bungalow” — a family beach house — where Nene would make Aline and her cousins toast with cinnamon and sugar.
She has a child’s-eye-view memoir of her grandmother embedded on Eftyhia’s page — the Mary Poppins drawstring bag, the long waist-length hair, the radical mastectomy Aline once accidentally saw, the fear of lightning, the candies in the bra. It is the closest single document the family record has to Eftyhia’s day-to-day self, and it exists because Aline wrote it down years before Alex asked.
”What place do I miss most?”
Aline is also a published writer. A newspaper column reproduced in full on the Bungalow story page — “What place do I miss most? Without a doubt: My father’s shoulders…” — is her prose memoir of a summer evening at the family’s beach bungalow on the sound, with three generations in the same scene: her father John on whose shoulders she sat, her grandmother Eftyhia frying flounder in the kitchen, her Uncle Takis sipping ouzo on the porch, her Aunt Alina at the piano, her mother Ines singing. The column is bylined “Aline Pepe, Keene, NY” — placing her present home in the Adirondack region of upstate New York.
Much of what this site has been able to add in 2026 about Lazaros, Eftyhia, the Soma years, the wider Jeannopoulos generation, and her father John Lazare’s life came directly from Aline. She is the one who corrected the long-standing misattribution of Ines Valda and the Tunis-born baby Claudine to her uncle Takis (they belonged to her father John Lazare); who revealed that her grandfather Lazaros had once been jailed by an Ottoman pasha and released only after delivering the pasha’s wife of a healthy son, the literal-historical origin of the “exiled Asia-Minor-Greek” line on his 1915 Athens book; who established that her father’s birth date had been falsified by his mother Eftyhia from 1911 to 1913 to shield him from military conscription; who identified her Aunt Maritsa by her actual Greek name and reattached her marriage to Dr. Spyridon Kritzalis; who surfaced the existence of an unnamed seventh Jeannopoulos sibling who died in the Mytilene refugee camp; and who carries the vivid family story of her father and Uncle Takis’s 1924–25 forged-passport runaway to Greece.
The Soma-era documentary haul of May 2026 was anchored substantially by her testimony, generously shared after Alex first reached out to her cold.
She is independently eligible for Greek citizenship through the same descent chain Alex is using.
