Jean Detrick Engstrom was born in 1925 in Lima, Ohio. She was known to many Lima News readers for here regular column and her trademark "Makes My Heart Smile" stories.
She also wrote an autobiographical tale of her life bouncing from one odd job to the next while growing up in the war years entitled "Rosie the Riveter-A.K.A. Jean".
Her nephew Bradley Detrick has taken her account and set it to music, creating "Anybody Can Do Anything", a concert piece for soprano and piano. This piece was premiered at the Lima Veterans Memorial Civic Center in 2007.
Music samples soon to be posted...