I was sorry to learn, only last week, a year and a half late, that WPRB Princeton’s long-time “Sunday Jazz” host, Jeannie Becker, died on April 28, 2023. She was a lovely woman, exuding positivity, always with a smile on her face, and sporting a smooth, mellifluous radio voice. I didn’t know her well, but we swapped chairs many times when I was doing Sunday morning classical there. Her build was slight and she moved carefully, and I gather she was not in the best of health, but she was always very well put-together, and she impressed me as being remarkably youthful.

I had no idea of Jeannie’s service in the U.S. Navy or her career at the Pentagon. Over the years, I’ve shared the airwaves with several colleagues who served in our armed forces (Ralph Collier and Bliss Michelson, among them), but to my knowledge, Jeannie is the only one who is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. She lived quite a life, and I think a fulfilling one. Thinking of her on this Veterans Day.

https://www.lewisfuneralhomemoorestown.com/obituaries/Jeannie-Becker/#!/Obituary

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