Jennifer Dobesh

Jennifer Kate “Katie” McLean Dobesh, 47, died on Saturday, June 12, 2021.

She was born in Lake Charles. She grew up along the Gulf coast in the small town of Grand Chenier.

She graduated from Flathead High School in 1992. She pursued pediatric nursing, graduating with a bachelor’s degree from the University of Tulsa in 1999. Later that year, she started at Cook Children’s Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas. She continued her education, earning her master’s degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. She started working as a Neonatal Nurse Practitioner in 2003, working in the neonatal ICU for almost 18 years.

She is survived by her husband Craig Dobesh; parents Rodney and Jimmie Ann McLean; brothers, Douglas, Duncan, and Donald McLean; and sister Bonnie Matheson.