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World War II nurse turns 100 Sunday

by JANA MERTENS/Special to The Press
| July 19, 2025 1:00 AM

Grandma Jeanne Richmond turns 100 Sunday.

She was born July 20, 1925, as Helen Jeanne Hoppe. She never really liked the name Helen, so she went by her middle name. She was born in New Harmony just 4 miles south of Clinton, Mo. That was the year radio was becoming significant and the first TV pictures were transmitted. 

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