Jean Patchett was pursued by many men, many of them wealthy. She was seen frequently at the Stork Club, and was a regular at the Friday lunch that the club’s owner, Sherman Billingsley, gave for models.
When Mr. Louis Auer V, a banker who worked on Wall Street, first met Jean Patchett in 1948, he was living at the Yale Club. Mr. Auer had graduated from Yale University just a year before in 1947.
“A couple of models I knew who lived at the Barbizon said, ‘We’ve got a girl for you,’ ” Mr. Auer recalled. ”We met at a luncheonette near the old DuMont studios.” Soon after they started going out, Mr. Auer gave Jean Patchett the nickname Pancho, which stuck. Jean Patchett and Louis Auer V married in 1951.
Jean & Louis Auer V lived and worked in New York City on the East side where they raised their family; son Bart and daughter Amy.