Jean E. Yedloutschnig
Jean E. Yedloutschnig, 86, beloved wife of Dr. Ronald Yedloutschnig for 64 years, passed away Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021, at Stony Brook University Hospital.
Born Sept. 7, 1934, in Ceresville, Md., she was the daughter of Ruth E. Brandenburg and Charles N. Reeder. She was a loving mother to James (Ruby) and John (Kim); cherished grandmother of Lisa (Nicolas), Alicia and Jamie; and adored great-grandmother of Sofia.
Jean graduated from Frederick (Md.) High School and studied at Adelphi University in Garden City, N.Y. While working at Fort Detrick, in Frederick, Md., she met 1st Lt. Ron Yedloutschnig, whom she married on Oct. 26, 1956. After moving to Bellingham, Wash., Jean worked as a secretary, nurse and surgical assistant in her husband’s veterinary practice. She later resided in Modesto and Sacramento, Calif., ultimately settling in Southold, N.Y., where she lived for the past 55 years.
Jean E. Yedloutschnig
Jean E. Yedloutschnig, 86, beloved wife of Dr. Ronald Yedloutschnig for 64 years, passed away Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021, at Stony Brook University Hospital.
Born Sept. 7, 1934, in Ceresville, Md., she was the daughter of Ruth E. Brandenburg and Charles N. Reeder. She was a loving mother to James (Ruby) and John (Kim); cherished grandmother of Lisa (Nicolas), Alicia and Jamie; and adored great-grandmother of Sofia.
Jean graduated from Frederick (Md.) High School and studied at Adelphi University in Garden City, N.Y. While working at Fort Detrick, in Frederick, Md., she met 1st Lt. Ron Yedloutschnig, whom she married on Oct. 26, 1956. After moving to Bellingham, Wash., Jean worked as a secretary, nurse and surgical assistant in her husband’s veterinary practice. She later resided in Modesto and Sacramento, Calif., ultimately settling in Southold, N.Y., where she lived for the past 55 years.
Anne-Julia Audray at the front of the opera house, where the church altar once stood. (Credit: Steve Wick)
In the fall of 2016, when longtime opera singer Anne-Julia Audray and her husband purchased the former Southold Methodist Church, her dreams for the future of the building were very ambitious.
She envisioned master classes in singing, piano and violin, along with yearly concerts and the staging of operas, such as Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” an opera she knows well, having sung the “Queen of the Night” aria many times at opera houses around the world.
Seated at a long table in a side room of the former church on a recent afternoon, the soft light streaming through south-facing windows, her voice rises and falls as she sings a well-known part of the aria, which has been described as one of the most challenging in all of opera.