Career
She is listed as a Great Floridian. The Jeanette Genius McKean Memorial 5k run is held annually in her honor. She attended Dana Hall and Pine Manor Junior College in Wellesley, Massachusetts and studied art at Grand Central Art School and the Art Students League in New New York
Her grandfather, Charles Hosmer Morse, lived in Winter Park, Florida where she settled.
Her husband, Hugh F. McKean, served as director