IT TAKES A LIFETIME

IT TAKES A LIFETIME: Trendsetter started out as teacher in Pine Bluff and Marianna

Black nurse became director of Jefferson Regional Medical Center School of Nursing

March 31, 2024 at 1:55 a.m.

by Kimberly Dishongh

Jessie Clemmons could not afford to go away to nursing school after she graduated from high school in Pine Bluff in 1955, so she taught science classes for five years so she could save enough money. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette)
Jessie Clemmons could not afford to go away to nursing school after she graduated from high school in Pine Bluff in 1955, so she taught science classes for five years so she could save enough money. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette)


Jessie Clemmons wanted to be a nurse, but she needed to teach before she could learn how to do that.

She reached her goal -- and beyond -- and worked for 40 years at the Jefferson Regional Medical Center School of Nursing in Pine Bluff.

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