Jeanne Turner is a hard worker. Since before her teens, she has been making her own money.
“There’s probably never a day since I was twelve years old I didn’t work.” Jeanne said.
Born in Rockford, MI., the daughter of a state policeman, Jeanne attended elementary school at St. Brigid in Detroit, Rockford High School for ninth and tenth grades, and Parkside High School in Jackson for her last two years of high school, graduating in 1970.
During her junior and senior years of high school, Turner was a car hop at A&W Restaurant on High Street and West Avenue. Since then she has built up 40-odd years of work as a server and bartender, waitressing and tending bar at the Brown Hut for 18 years and the Oak Tree Lounge for four as a bartender, waitress, and cook, before buying My Playce, which she has owned for 19 years this May.
“I saw it, wanted it, bought it,” she said simply of her acquisition of My Playce.
It has not been easy keeping a bar running with the downslide of the economy. Turner says she used to have a lot of employees, but for the past four years, does all the bartending, cooking, and serving solely by herself.
“I do everything. (Work) keeps us young...or old.” Turner said with a laugh.
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