Daughter of William and Lois Holland of Stocks Avenue, Mytholmroyd. Step sister of Ralph Holland who was organist at Mytholmroyd Methodist Church. Jean worked for Boococks Solicitors as a will writer. She never married
Born Leone Jones on Lee Mill Road. She later ran Ashley House on Hangingroyd Lane near the bottom of Moss Lane. Leone married Johnny Knight, they had two sons, Lindsay and Julian, and lived at Hebden Grove in the 1960s.