The Minnesota Woman Who Froze Solid Overnight — And The Medical Miracle That Saved Her Life
Her father, Lester, was a local man, rooted in the community.
Her mother, Bernice, kept the household.
Jean was 19, young and healthy, and in December 1980 she was dating a man named Paul, whose friend Wally Nelson was a cattle rancher in the area.
The connection between these people — Jean, Paul, Wally — would become the structure of her survival on the night things went wrong.
That night had begun ordinarily enough.
Jean and friends had spent the evening out — dancing and having some drinks at the Fosston American Legion, the kind of Saturday night entertainment that defined social life in small Minnesota towns in the early 1980s.
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