Nightingale Man

27 December 1926 – March 5, 2014

Jane Ellen Jamison was born on 27 December 1926 in Los Angeles, California, USA, daugther of Frances (Crooks) and James K. Jamison. When she was nine months old, her parents, both teachers, took her to Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where she grew up most of her childhood. Her father played a key role in encouraging her as a writer, who was, himself, a history writer. She attended Michigan State University, College of the Sequoias and Northern Michigan University. She has been a registered nurse as well as a Cadet nurse. She had moved from upstate New York to Carson City, Nevada--the result of falling in love with a Nevadan. On 24 June 1949, she married Albert Jenke, they had five children: Jam…