Genealogist, Legal Secretary
Daughter of John Lukens HUFFORD and Florence Maud LOTZ, Shirley was a legal secretary for many years and a noted genealogist and family historian. In 1947, in Asheville, North Carolina, she married Charles H. STAPLETON, Jr.; he died in 1954. In 1961 she married John W. HEGEMAN in Dayton, Ohio. Shirley was a member of the Oneonta Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, having joined in 1983. She served DAR in various offices: Chapter Treasurer, Assistant Registrar, Registrar, Chapter Chairman for Lineage Research, and Vice Chairman of Lineage Research for New York State, District 6. In 1988 she was one of the founding members of the Friends of Swart-Wilcox House, a group that spearheaded the restoration of the oldest house in Oneonta, New York, and was instrumental in having it placed on the National Historic Register. In the words of her daughter, "Wherever she lived, from Ohio, to California to New York, Shirley considered life an adventure and took advantage of all the historic places and libraries around her. She passed along to her children the love of books, winding country roads, and Scrabble. Her family was her priority, passing down the pictures, history, and relationships that still lovingly bind them together."
Shirley was survived by her husband, a daughter, three sons, seven grandchildren, a sister, and a brother.
Daughter of John Lukens HUFFORD and Florence Maud LOTZ, Shirley was a legal secretary for many years and a noted genealogist and family historian. In 1947, in Asheville, North Carolina, she married Charles H. STAPLETON, Jr.; he died in 1954. In 1961 she married John W. HEGEMAN in Dayton, Ohio. Shirley was a member of the Oneonta Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, having joined in 1983. She served DAR in various offices: Chapter Treasurer, Assistant Registrar, Registrar, Chapter Chairman for Lineage Research, and Vice Chairman of Lineage Research for New York State, District 6. In 1988 she was one of the founding members of the Friends of Swart-Wilcox House, a group that spearheaded the restoration of the oldest house in Oneonta, New York, and was instrumental in having it placed on the National Historic Register. In the words of her daughter, "Wherever she lived, from Ohio, to California to New York, Shirley considered life an adventure and took advantage of all the historic places and libraries around her. She passed along to her children the love of books, winding country roads, and Scrabble. Her family was her priority, passing down the pictures, history, and relationships that still lovingly bind them together."
Shirley was survived by her husband, a daughter, three sons, seven grandchildren, a sister, and a brother.
Genealogist, Legal Secretary
Daughter of John Lukens HUFFORD and Florence Maud LOTZ, Shirley was a legal secretary for many years and a noted genealogist and family historian. In 1947, in Asheville, North Carolina, she married Charles H. STAPLETON, Jr.; he died in 1954. In 1961 she married John W. HEGEMAN in Dayton, Ohio. Shirley was a member of the Oneonta Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, having joined in 1983. She served DAR in various offices: Chapter Treasurer, Assistant Registrar, Registrar, Chapter Chairman for Lineage Research, and Vice Chairman of Lineage Research for New York State, District 6. In 1988 she was one of the founding members of the Friends of Swart-Wilcox House, a group that spearheaded the restoration of the oldest house in Oneonta, New York, and was instrumental in having it placed on the National Historic Register. In the words of her daughter, "Wherever she lived, from Ohio, to California to New York, Shirley considered life an adventure and took advantage of all the historic places and libraries around her. She passed along to her children the love of books, winding country roads, and Scrabble. Her family was her priority, passing down the pictures, history, and relationships that still lovingly bind them together."
Shirley was survived by her husband, a daughter, three sons, seven grandchildren, a sister, and a brother.
Daughter of John Lukens HUFFORD and Florence Maud LOTZ, Shirley was a legal secretary for many years and a noted genealogist and family historian. In 1947, in Asheville, North Carolina, she married Charles H. STAPLETON, Jr.; he died in 1954. In 1961 she married John W. HEGEMAN in Dayton, Ohio. Shirley was a member of the Oneonta Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, having joined in 1983. She served DAR in various offices: Chapter Treasurer, Assistant Registrar, Registrar, Chapter Chairman for Lineage Research, and Vice Chairman of Lineage Research for New York State, District 6. In 1988 she was one of the founding members of the Friends of Swart-Wilcox House, a group that spearheaded the restoration of the oldest house in Oneonta, New York, and was instrumental in having it placed on the National Historic Register. In the words of her daughter, "Wherever she lived, from Ohio, to California to New York, Shirley considered life an adventure and took advantage of all the historic places and libraries around her. She passed along to her children the love of books, winding country roads, and Scrabble. Her family was her priority, passing down the pictures, history, and relationships that still lovingly bind them together."
Shirley was survived by her husband, a daughter, three sons, seven grandchildren, a sister, and a brother.
Inscription
Shirley Ann
HEGEMAN
nee Hufford
September 6, 1929
April 26, 2013
Mother
Daughters of the American Revolution
Gravesite Details
Headstone & obituary photo from D. Robinson collection.
