Submitted by: Dan Rich

Jeanette L. Baldoni

Apr. 22, 1914 – Mar. 29, 1983

South Bend Tribune 3/30/1983

Mrs. Jeanette L. (Skip) Baldoni, 68, of 55310 Filbert Road, Mishawaka, wife of 3^rd District Democratic Chairman Ideal Baldoni, died at 3:45 p.m. Tuesday in St. Joseph
Medical Center.

While shunning the political spotlight herself, Mrs Baldoni was a loyal backer of her husband in his races for Portage Twp. Assessor and in Democratic organization efforts at the local, state and national levels.

In an interview last summer Baldoni said of his wife: “Not only has she put up with me, but whatever I accomplished, I never would have done without her encouragement and help along the way.” Although Mrs. Baldoni sometimes expressed disappointment over attitudes in the political world, she had found memories of many of the people she met in politics, especially for the late Hubert Humphrey and the personal phone calls and messages he sent when she was hospitalized while he was vice president.

“Skip” as she was called by all who knew her well, had made a remarkable recovery from open heart surgery in 1967. She suffered a stroke last June, but again had made an almost complete recovery. She was hospitalized March 19, however, from another stroke.

Mrs. Baldoni was manager of the South Bend License Bureau from 1965 to 1967.

She was born on April 22, 1914, in Mishawaka and lived in the South Bend-Mishawaka community all her life.

On July 20, 1937, in South Bend, she married Ideal F. Baldoni. He survives with a daughter, Jeanne Houghland, of Manhattan Beach, Calif.; a son Ideal F. Baldoni II of West Palm Beach, Fla.; two grandchildren; and three sisters, Miss Stella Jackson of South Bend, Mrs. Helen DeVew of Eureka Springs, Ark. And Mrs. Gertrude Currey of Green Valley, Ariz.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday in St. Matthew’s Cathedral, with Most. Rev Joseph R. Crowley, rector, officiating.

Burial will be in Southlawn Cemetery.

Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday in Guisinger Colonial Chapel, where a rosary will be said at 4 p.m. Thursday.

A memorial service mass is scheduled at 10 a.m. Tuesday in St. Matthew Cathedral.

Memorial contributions may be made to the American Heart Association.

Editor Her maiden name was Jeanette L. Hunt. She was the daughter of Robbin Ray Hunt and Clara L. Spielman.