I have wonderful memories of a visit that I made to Jean’s home in Romsey, with Connie, Jeremy and Robin, in July of 2013. Rosie was there as well. I recall a lingering sense of pleasure that Andy Murray had finally won Wimbledon a couple of weeks earlier, as well as guesses about what William and Kate might name their first child, who was due at any time. As I recall, Jean correctly predicted George. One night we had a lovely dinner in the garden—fish and chips—with Geoff Chamberlain, greeted like family by Jean. My favorite memory of the visit: we were in the sitting room, sipping sherry, engaged in various activities. Jean was watching the evening news. I wish I could retrieve the exact words and situation, but they’re lost to time. Suffice it to say that someone being interviewed on the news said something that displeased Jean and she, pert in her armchair, holding her glass of sherry, snapped right back at him…something along the lines of “Foolish man!” I laughed out loud. If it should come to pass that, at age 87, I’m sitting with a glass of sherry and engaging with the news of the day, I’ll be in fine fettle. Another memory: the beautiful calligraphy of Byron’s She Walks In Beauty that Jean made for Connie at the time of Connie and Jeremy’s wedding. It’s always meaningful to reflect on lives well lived, as Jean’s was…and her legacy spans ‘the Pond’. To paraphrase two lines from the Byron poem, her many days were “in goodness spent”; may her “mind [be] at peace with all below…” From Jeanne Breen, Family Friend