Jean I have just heard about your leaving us .. you were always full of life , energy and amusing company so this is hard to contemplate.

We met in 1990 and for a time sat next to each on the broking desk at Chin Tung .. there was never a dull moment as only those who know you well will fully understand.

Your greatest accomplishment was raising your family which it was clear gave you so much long lasting happiness..

Whist we saw less of each other over the years whenever we did speak or meet it was as if there had been no passage of time.

Travel well Jean.

We're all so sorry to hear of this sad and very premature loss. From earliest recollections of a long-haired bronzed youth astride a motorcycle in Bangkok in the late 1970's, to the many happy memories of living as our closest neighbours in the Natural Place in the 1990's, Jean always seemed to live life to the full, and he'll leave a big void behind. We'll always remember him with great affection. With love to you all.

Rest in strength dear Jean. I will always remember time spent on the mats playing our sport. I remember the day Jean showed me pictures of him on his bike and how he loved the feel of the wind as he rode. But he said nothing comes close to the love of family. My deepest condolences. 

I met Jean only a couple of times but he made a big impression on me. He came to Thailand at a time when fewer Westerners did, and the country was so different from what it is now. Jean was an early pioneer, and I always admired him for his great sense of adventure. I already think back to the nineties, the decade I moved to Thailand, with a sense of nostalgia, but Jean was here already in the seventies and eighties, and he was truly an “old Asia hand”, and as such I and many of my friends looked up to him and his wisdom and experience.
Jean actually met some of the characters now made famous in the Netflix series “the Serpent” and I truly thought that was amazing.
Jean posted pictures of his early days in Thailand on FB, pictures of Jean on his motorbike, with his wife, and with his three young daughters, and the love and excitement and happiness on display in these pictures continued throughout his life.
Jean was also the perfect host, I had the privilege of staying in his beautiful homes both in Chiang Mai and Phuket, clear displays of his and Khun Primprow admiration for Thai culture and exquisite taste in interior and exterior design.
Jean combined many of the human attributes few of us can lay claim to…he was modest and humble, he was wise, he was a loving father and husband, he had an amazing sense of humor (I will always remember that he referred to my employee salary as celery sticks :-)), he was a gentleman, and of course the sense for exploration was in his DNA. He was lucky to have a very beautiful family, with a loving wife and three fantastic daughters…daughters that grew up to become exemplary adults…
Last time I actually spoke with Jean on the phone was less than 2 years ago, when I asked him for the pros and cons of living in Phuket versus living in Chiang Mai…again Jean took all the time in the world to generously share his intimate experience with me…
Jean’s life was cut short, too short…but his loving girls were there with him until the end, again proof of the strong love binding his family to him and vice versa…
Jean’s life was too short, but for sure he lived his life to the fullest, and has experienced much more life and much more love than many other people in the world who live to an older age.
I will never forget Jean.
Rust in vrede, beste Jean ❤️❤️❤️

RIP my dear dear friend!

To the family,

Your husband and wonderful father was a truly remarkable man, full of humour, mischief, intellect, street cunning and quick wit, he and I go back nearly 50 years and he was always considered my dearest friend. I knew I would always be able to rely on him in time of need no matter the distance between us or the time that separated us, he remained loyal to the end concerned by my own health issues while battling his own in silence. He loved his family, he was proud of and adored his children and lived his life to the fullest everyday. Staying at the Hilton hotel in Bangkok in the late nineties, I was woken at 3.00am to a knock on the door from “room service” advising that they had the breakfast I had ordered - it was a foul smelling fish head soup!! ordered and scheduled by you know who!!

Every subsequent visit to BKK and there were many was planned and executed with extreme caution, secrecy and excessive levels of security necessary to keep the visit covert from Mr Gomery, despite all these efforts he managed on multiple occasions to breach the security cauldron and I payed the price

He will truly be very sadly missed, never forgotten and I am sure we will never share the likes of him again.

To Meow, Anissa, Tanya and Sylvia my love reaches out to you all, my heart bleeds for your loss and I want you to know that our prayers, thoughts and best wishes and condolences are with you at this very sad time….please do not reflect on your loss as I am sure you naturally will but rather celebrate his and your lives shared so fully together, celebrate his legacy and live his dream - with love from Nigel & Caroline

Jean was someone that once you met you can never forget.
A charismatic man, full of energy and life, always with a smile on his face.
Jean was our friend and neighbour in Bangkok for eight years. We appreciated his intelligence, his wit, his great sense of humour as well as his incredible energy!!! He adored his beautiful family. He was a great father and he was always proud of his amazing wife and his lovely daughters!!!
We will remember him with emotion because he was not only a character but above all a real GENTLEMAN.
Our sincere condolences to his family.
You will always stay in our hearts Jean.
Rest in peace in your beloved Chiang Mai.
Love,
Yves, Elena

Dear family
From Europa Brussels we send you all our hearth thinking and I will Kiev in my mind all the happy time we had with Jean,!in London when we were student ! And in Belgium when he came to see his family and also us at the Belgium sees side Knokke le Zoute.
I know by Alain that we were always next to Jean sinds he was hill and for Jean having a so nice family is happiness and love.
Good luck to all of you and courage. Jean is still with us and he will join Augustine my husband with happiness.
Kind regards to all off you xxx Odile de Saint marcq

My deepest condolences to the whole family. I speak for the whole BJJ community when I say that his presence will be missed. I will miss him as a dear friend.

My sincere condoléances to his wife and children.