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Jean MacArthur, General's Widow, Dies at 101

By ENID NEMYJAN. 24, 2000

Mrs. MacArthur, whom William Manchester, the MacArthur biographer, described as a poem of womanhood, married General MacArthur in New York in 1937. They had met two years previously when he was a fellow passenger on the S.S. President Hoover, en route to the Philippines to assume his duties as military adviser to the government there. Later, he became the supreme allied commander in the Southwest Pacific, waged the campaign against Japan and accepted the surrender of Japanese forces in 1945 in Tokyo Bay aboard the U.S.S. Missouri.

Fellow members of the Daughters of the American Revolution recalled that every time Jean Faircloth heard a Fourth of July firecracker go off, she jumped to attention and saluted. Young men were advised that if you want to win Jean Marie, you better get a uniform.