Jean Denecke

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Jean Lucille Denecke was born October 23, 1917 in Akron, Ohio. After graduating high school, she moved to Detroit and worked as a hostess at Stouffer’s restaurant and eventually married. In 1946, she contracted Polio and, after nine months in the hospital, she was able to return home in an iron lung. A year later, she spent four months at the Roosevelt Foundation in Warms Springs, Georgia where she was fitted with braces and a proper wheelchair. Although she never regained the ability to walk, she was able to take care of some of her personal needs, write, dial a phone and breathe without assistance. In 1954, she founded a small business which she ran from her home by telephone. Jean Deneke was active in her church, and charitable organizations. With assistance and support from her husband, she raised her family, ran her household, and was an inspiration to others.

She died of a cerebral hemorrhage March 10, 1969 in Dearborn, Michigan.