Jean A. Pupeter was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey to two army veterans who met stationed in Florida during World War II. By age 3, she had moved with her family to Wisconsin, where she grew up with one sister and one brother. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a bachelor’s degree in social work and worked for 34 years as a social worker for a public human services agency; mainly as a Foster Home Coordinator, licensing foster homes.
She was married with one child and now has one grandchild. After retirement,
she and her husband moved to Las Vegas, where her daughter and family live.
She also penned a small family history of her mother’s family, with a beginning in 1879 when her maternal grandfather was born in Berlin, Germany. She loves music, sports, and reading, belonging to four book clubs.