Dr. Ilona Marton Dies at 92 - Peary
French teacher (early years), Hungarian
political prisoner, reporter, refugee;
former mother-in-law to broadcaster
Peter Jennings and U.S. diplomat
Richard C. Holbrooke  (story at Wash. Post obit in a new window - September 7, 2004).  At left, Ilona Marton walks in Vienna's Heroes Square in 1957 with her husband, Endre, and daughters, Kati 10, left, and Julia 11.  The family had been spirited out of Hungary after Soviet troops entered Budapest.  (AP photo).

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