Well-known local restauranteur Jean-Claude Petit passed away Sunday morning after a long battle with cancer. He was 67.“We became pen pals when I was in the eighth grade,” wife Judy Petit recalled of the long-distance romance that began when she was a school girl from Fairview – a romance that eventually brought Jean-Claude to America. “I wanted a boy from Paris, France.”Her pen pal query was answered by Jean-Claude who wrote back in French.