Jeanne Elizabeth Warren DeSalvo of Westport died July 18 in Norwalk Hospital of complications from advanced colon cancer. She was 86.

Jeanne DeSalvo: active volunteer. Contributed photo
A Norwalk resident for 75 years, she had resided in Westport since May 2004.
Daughter of the late Thomas H. Warren and Norma Ryder Warren of Norwalk, she was born Oct. 7, 1928 and attended Norwalk schools and the Merrill Business School.
She married Arthur E. DeSalvo, Jr., of Rowayton, on May 14, 1955. They met while they were both working at the architectural firm of Eliot Noyes and Associates in New Canaan, where Art became a full partner before starting his own firm, Group Six and Associates, in Norwalk. They were married 42 years.