Raymonde Jones Veber

Raymonde Jones Veber, born Raymonde Veber, was a French tennis player from Paris, the youngest of six children of a wealthy family whose father ran a tire-making rubber plant. She grew up in Neuilly-sur-Seine and began playing tennis at twelve after the family doctor said she needed more exercise. In 1944 she won the singles title at the Tournoi de France, the tournament set up in Vichy France during the Second World War in place of the French Championships, beating her compatriot Jacqueline Patorni in the final in two sets. In 1945 she married Ray Geyer Jones, a major in the US Third Army, and in 1947 the couple moved to the United States, where she lived for the rest of her life.