Jean was born April 9, 1949 in Kansas City, Kansas to Jack and Janie (Cox) Sampel. She lived in Kansas City, Kansas until moving in 1972 with her 2 children and 1st husband, Larry Degraffenreid, which was in the Army. She lived in Washington, then Georgia, then went to Columbia, South Carolina in 1977. She lived in Berlin, Germany for a short time in 1981 then returned to Columbia, South Carolina.   Jean went to nursing school in 1982 where she received her LPN. Her and her daughter moved back to Kansas City, Kansas in 1984. Shortly after she started working at KU Med Center as a Psychiatric Nurse. She worked at KU until retiring. After retiring she took a billing/coding class. She worked as a medical coder at Sunflower Medical Group for a few years before retiring again.   Jean married her 2nd husband Robert Dinkins in 1990. They were married until Roberts death in 2017, 27 years.   Jean was the person you could talk to about anything, without judgement. She was there for anybody who needed her. She loved to read books and had to have her coffee. She enjoyed going out to lunch with her siblings. In the last 10 years she spent a lot of her time playing games on her computer. She loved spending time with her family. Her 9 great grandkids were her pride and joy.    Jean was preceded in death by her father Jack, mother Janie, husband Robert, beloved dog Tinky, son-in-law Gary Sharp Jr, niece Marcie Queral, nephew Chris Myers, brother-in-law Terry Myers, brother-in-law John (Babe) Degraffenreid, and sister Judy Ware.   Jean is survived in death by her son Larry Degraffenreid Jr. (Debbie), daughter Nicki Sharp, 3 grandsons Scott Sharp, Larry Degraffenreid III (Destiny), Nicholas Degraffenreid, 3 granddaughters Shauney Sharp, Summer Johnson (Justice), Autumn Degraffenreid (Alexis), 9 great-grandchildren AnnaBella, Allenna, Jayden, Sage, River, Madilyn, Bentlee, Myles, and Haidyn, sister Jackie Myers, 2 brothers John Sampel (Lori), James Sampel (Connie) and many nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.   Jean will be truly missed every single day. She will live on through everyone that knew and loved her with memories and things she taught us. Fly high my beautiful amazing Angel!! We love you always and forever and will NEVER forget you.    A celebration of life will be announced at a later date.