Jean Maxine Kemnitz was born in Bloomfield, Nebraska on Dec. 7, 1920, the first child of Ray and Frieda Kemnitz. When she was 5, the family moved to South Dakota, where her parents homesteaded on Pass Creek near Norris, starting out in a sod house. There was no school nearby at the time, so Jean lived with her grandparents, Herman and Emma Jordan, in Bloomfield for her first year of school, the...
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