Marie-Jeanne Urchetti, her support invaluable

Marie-Jeanne Urchetti with husband Hugo (Photo: courtesy of Michele Urchetti) by Michele Urchetti Resident at Val Fleuri in Geneva, a medical and social institution for the elderly, after contracting Coronavirus (COVID-19), Marie-Jeanne Urchetti passed away quietly, without suffering, on Monday 13th April. Born in 1930 in the Swiss village of Le Châble in Valais; from 1937 to 1945 she lived in Martigny, before residing in Le Bouveret and then St. Maurice. In 1945 she moved to Geneva with her mother, sister Suzanne and brother Pierre. Later from 1946 to 1950 she worked as a secretary at the Pictet Bank and SA Import Company, before leaving for England where she resided until 1952. In 1956 she married Hugo Urchetti, a founder member of the Swaythling