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Jean M. Krohn, age 91, died on August 25, 2016 at Waverly Heights, Gladwyne, PA. She was born on May 4, 1925 in Madison,South Dakota to the late Carl Elder Porter and Leonore Sylvia Johnson. She was a graduate of Central High in Madison, SD. then South Dakota State Univ. awarded degree in broadcast journalism 1948. Jean was born and grew up in Madison, a small town in south eastern South Dakota. She enjoyed camping, swimming in the (2) regional lakes and her classwork where she graduated at the top of her high school class. Like her generation, She survived a bleak economic depression, which forged her daily goal to be self-reliant, and once achieved to give back to others. Next were the war years, small towns across the state were emptied as her family relocated in faraway places, Jean relocated to cherry point marine base in North Carolina, passed placement entrance exams and a salary to help pay for her tuition at state university. After many jobs and some privation, she was able to pay for and complete her degree in broadcast journalism at State University. She found her first professional jobs writing for radio stations filling air time with news and interest stories in Yankton and Sioux Falls South Dakota. Jean Married and announcer and eventual Television Station Manager; raised 2 sons and moved with her family to Dallas, Oklahoma, Illinois, New York and Philadelphia as her husband moved up in the television industry. Jean enjoyed phillly’s women’s golf, golfed competitively in team matches leading the Phila. Women’s cup. Jean was very active in her golf club and her Lutheran Church. Jean understood the growing need for life care contracts and apartment facilities back in 1982 and was a founding board member of Waverly Heights Inc., an award winning life care facility, where, upon her son Steve’s death, she moved to enjoy her last years without the cares of maintaining a house,, and to be surrounded by many lifelong, and new friends. She and others truly had a vision to build such a place, and she enjoyed the fruits of her labors as a resident in her final years. Jean is survived by her son, Jeffrey S. Krohn, his wife Marlene L. and granddaughter Jordan L. Krohn of California; brother, Carl E. Porter II, his wife Paula; and niece, Patti English, nephew Carl Porter III; nieces Martha Filley and Katherine Galatzan and nephew John Fynn; and Sister-in-law Nelda Krohn ,niece Marne Baca, nephew Marc Krohn. Besides her husband and son, she was also preceded in death by sister Mary Leigh and husband John Fynn. She is also survived by longtime friends supportive of Jean and her son during hospice care, Beth and Dave Mckelvaney, Barbara Keyser, Carol Hammerberg. Alicia Somers, Beverly Decer New friends Donna Ford Pink, Jessica Opare, Maureen Woods, Dale Dennis, Yazmin Seiden. Memorial contributions may be made in her name to St. Paul's Lutheran Church.

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Jean M. Krohn

May 4, 1925 - August 23, 2016