Jeanne Jomelli

Jomelli had a pure soprano voice of singularly clear, steady, musical quality, and she was an accomplished vocalist," recalled Herman Klein, who worked with her on improving her English diction.

[6] She was in Belgium at the start of World War I and lost nineteen trunks of costumes and other possessions in the rush to leave ahead of German advances.

[7] Instead she toured western Canadian cities with composer Hallett Gilberté during the war, giving benefit concerts for wounded veterans.

[13] She stayed in the San Francisco Bay area for most of her remaining years, [14] though she also spent significant time teaching in Honolulu, Hawaii, at the Punahou School.

[18] Very soon after Jomelli's death, Orrin Backus remarried; when his new wife left him, in fear of his violent threats, he died in November 1932 by suicide.