Jacques M. H. Landron 86, of Brewster died on April 26, 2010 at Epoch of Brewster after a brief illness. He was born in Orleans, France, attended school there and in Meung-sur-Loire, completed his formal education at the Cours Frederic le Play in Paris, and served in the French Army as it cleaned out the remaining German fortifications along the French-German border at the end of World War II. Returning to Meung, he held a management position in the family business until it closed in 1954. In 1955 he joined an insurance business in Pointe Noire in the former French Congo in Africa, where he also ran a motion picture theater and helped manage the local yacht club when he wasn’t water-skiing.
In 1959, Mr. Landron returned to France where he managed an insurance agency in a Paris suburb. He also met a young American lady, Jean Gillis, and in 1960 they married: first in his native Meung, at a civil ceremony at the Town Hall, and then in Brighton, MA, in Our lady of the Presentation Church.
In 1966 Jacques and Jean relocated to the United States and settled in Brewster, where they lived happily ever after in their own little corner of Cape Cod Bay. Jacques’ answer to the frequent question, “Do you miss France:” was always: “Only my family”.
Surviving, in addition to his loving wife, are siblings Christiane Landron Hennique; Jean-Marc, Gerard and Pierre Landron; Dominique Landron Wlodarczyk; and many nieces, nephews, great-nieces and -nephews, in France, Norway, and the U.S.A.
A Mass of Christian burial will be held on Friday April 30 at 11 AM at Our Lady of the Cape Church, Brewster, MA; burial in Pine Grove Cemetery, Brewster, will follow. Visitation will be held on Thursday April 29 from 4-7 at the Nickerson Funeral Home, Orleans MA. In lieu of flowers, donations in Jacques’ memory may be made to the Brewster Fire & Rescue Association, 1657 Main St., Brewster, MA 02631 or St. Vincent De Paul Society, Box 1799, Brewster, MA 02631. For more information and on-line guest book please go to www.nickersonfunerals.com.
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