JeAnne Burg

JeAnne Rae Burg (December 23, 1937 – October 3, 2020) was an American environmental statistician who worked for many years in the United States Public Health Service.

Burg was born on December 23, 1937, in Coleridge, Nebraska, one of three children in a farming family.

She continued to teach at the high school level while her husband earned a Ph.D. in chemistry at Kent State University.

After he took a faculty position at the University of Cincinnati, she earned a Ph.D. in environmental science there in 1975, while continuing to raise their two children.

[1] After struggles with Parkinson's disease, she died on October 3, 2020, in Atlantic Beach, Florida.