Jean Kehl

Jean Kehl, age 64, of Mt. Carroll, Illinois, entered Heaven November 16, 2016, at Select Specialty Hospital, Davenport, Iowa. A Celebration of Life Service will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, November 26, 2016 at the Mt. Carroll Church of God. Burial will take place in Oak Hill Cemetery, Mt. Carroll. A visitation will be held from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m., Friday, November 25, 2016 at the Mt. Carroll Church of God.
Jean was born April 23, 1952 in Freeport, Illinois, the daughter of Maynard and Bernice (Dinderman) Kehl. She attended Mt. Carroll High School and graduated with the Class of 1970. Jean married Dale Brown in 1974. She received her nursing degree from Clinton Community College.
Jean was caring, loving and empathetic, which led her to have a great career in nursing. She worked at Savanna City Hospital. She then worked as a Registered Nurse for Mercy Home Health Care for many years, and finally worked as a Registered Nurse for Big Meadows Nursing Home in Savanna, Illinois.
Jean’s faith was a very important part of her life. She was a life-long member of the Mt. Carroll Church of god and enjoyed her church’s small group meetings and always made time in her life for charitable work. She loved spending time with her family; she never missed a sporting event or school activity for her son. Jean also enjoyed cooking, crafting wreaths, decorating, woodworking, painting, coloring, riding motorcycles, shopping, flower gardening and bird watching.
She will be dearly missed by her son, Frank (Lauree) Brown of Savanna; two sisters, Barbara (Bill) Kampas of Elkhorn, Wisconsin, and Linda (Bill) Zink of Fulton, Illinois and many nieces, nephews and cousins. Jean is preceded in death by her parents, Maynard and Bernice, and her mother-in-law Jeanice Brown.