Jean Braden

Jean Braden graduated from Marylhurst College with a B.A. in Communications. She retired from Portland General Electric after twenty-two years. Her story " Resurrection," which details the events of her father's death, is included in an anthology of Portland writers called How to Leave a Place, published in November 2005. Her second book, "Homesick in Paradise, A Ponape Story 1965- 1967", was published in December 2014. Both books can be found at Amazon.com. She is an Oregonian, born in Silverton, Oregon. She and her husband have been married fifty-four years and have two children and two grandchildren.

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