Jeanette Hope Stangland (née McBride) passed away unexpectedly at Aurora BayCare Medical Center in Green Bay, on Sept. 22, 2024. Jeanette was born in Minneapolis on Jan. 12, 1950, to parents Gene Allen McBride and Eunice Areta McBride (née Longenecker). The daughter of missionaries, she spent part of her youth in the field of Portuguese Guinea (now Guinea-Bissau), West Africa, before returning to the US to finish middle and high school in Mountain Lake, Minnesota. During that time, she was raised and cared for by her second family, her aunt Mary (Gerhard Lowell) Fast (née Longenecker), and her children, “brother” Gerhard Allen, and “sisters” Lenita, Twyla, and Margaret.