The full newspaper-page version of Ines Valda’s April 7, 2004 obituary — companion to the cropped version. This rendering preserves more of the context (date stamp, surrounding obits) than the cropped image.
Key facts recovered from the full text (provided by her daughter Aline in May 2026):
- Born in France; member of the French Resistance.
- Survived a firing squad and a Nazi labor camp; liberated by American troops.
- Joined the French Red Cross as a nurse in Strasbourg, where she met John Lazare Jeannopoulos, a doctor in the US Army.
- Came to America as a war bride.
- 1948–1951: helped John run a regional field hospital in Sousse, Tunisia, North Africa.
- Linguist; director at the Berlitz School of Languages, NYC, where she was known as “Madame Jean” until retirement.
- Lived in NYC, then East Northport (Long Island), then Colorado.
- Three daughters: Mya (m. Dominick Durso; d. 2002), Claudine (m. Patrick Boyhan), Aline (m. Nick Pepe).
- Sixteen grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren.
- Funeral at St. Anthony of Padua RC Church, East Northport. Interment at Calverton National Cemetery.