NEW OXFORD Carmena Long Hess, 80, of the Brethren Home, New Oxford, died October 25, 2010, at Hanover Hospital after continuing health problems since surgery in January of this year.
She was born on July 7, 1930, in Elkhart, Indiana, to Forrest H. and Esther (Rigney) Long, as Carmena Ann Long, named after the daughter of a doctor her mother worked for. At age 5, she moved with her family to Chicago where she graduated from Hyde Park High School in 1948, and then Chicago Junior City College, Wilson Branch in 1950.
On September 9, 1950, she married the late Merle Edwin Hess, of Chambersburg, a graduate student of the University of Chicago at the time. The family lived in Ohio, Florida, and Illinois as Mr. Hess' banking career led them, and then in June of 1967, moved to a farm north of New Oxford.
By 1968 she enrolled in the Penn State University, Capital Campus, where she received bachelors and graduate degrees in education. She was employed as a New Oxford Elementary School teacher in 1971, where she taught for 22 years, retiring in 1993.
She has resided at the Brethren Home Village Retirement community in New Oxford since 1997.
She was a strong advocate for education and the arts, and was involved in many volunteer activities over the years including; Adult Remedial Reading Program, Hanover, Hanover Library, Hospice-Spring Grove-Hanover, Fine Arts and Recycling work, Brethren Home, and League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania.
She was preceded in death by; her husband, April 14, 2006, and her only sister, Sandra Lipphardt, February 9, 1995, of Grandville, Ohio; and is survived by; a daughter, Judith E. Taylor, of Rohnert Park, Calif.; three sons, David E., and Richard A., both of Hershey, and Robert C., of Coatesville; and seven grandchildren.
She was a member of the Unitarian University Fellowship of Gettysburg. Memorial services will be held Saturday, November 20, 2010, 10:30 a.m., at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Gettysburg 136 S. Stratton St., Gettysburg.
Memorials can be given in the form of donations to New Oxford, or Hanover Libraries. Autobiographies, mysteries, and historical books were her preference.
Condolences to be shared with Carmena's immediate family can be directed to David Hess, 212 Maple Ave, Hershey, PA 17033-1548.
Published in Evening Sun on October 28, 2010 (Hanover, PA)
She was born on July 7, 1930, in Elkhart, Indiana, to Forrest H. and Esther (Rigney) Long, as Carmena Ann Long, named after the daughter of a doctor her mother worked for. At age 5, she moved with her family to Chicago where she graduated from Hyde Park High School in 1948, and then Chicago Junior City College, Wilson Branch in 1950.
On September 9, 1950, she married the late Merle Edwin Hess, of Chambersburg, a graduate student of the University of Chicago at the time. The family lived in Ohio, Florida, and Illinois as Mr. Hess' banking career led them, and then in June of 1967, moved to a farm north of New Oxford.
By 1968 she enrolled in the Penn State University, Capital Campus, where she received bachelors and graduate degrees in education. She was employed as a New Oxford Elementary School teacher in 1971, where she taught for 22 years, retiring in 1993.
She has resided at the Brethren Home Village Retirement community in New Oxford since 1997.
She was a strong advocate for education and the arts, and was involved in many volunteer activities over the years including; Adult Remedial Reading Program, Hanover, Hanover Library, Hospice-Spring Grove-Hanover, Fine Arts and Recycling work, Brethren Home, and League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania.
She was preceded in death by; her husband, April 14, 2006, and her only sister, Sandra Lipphardt, February 9, 1995, of Grandville, Ohio; and is survived by; a daughter, Judith E. Taylor, of Rohnert Park, Calif.; three sons, David E., and Richard A., both of Hershey, and Robert C., of Coatesville; and seven grandchildren.
She was a member of the Unitarian University Fellowship of Gettysburg. Memorial services will be held Saturday, November 20, 2010, 10:30 a.m., at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Gettysburg 136 S. Stratton St., Gettysburg.
Memorials can be given in the form of donations to New Oxford, or Hanover Libraries. Autobiographies, mysteries, and historical books were her preference.
Condolences to be shared with Carmena's immediate family can be directed to David Hess, 212 Maple Ave, Hershey, PA 17033-1548.
Published in Evening Sun on October 28, 2010 (Hanover, PA)
NEW OXFORD Carmena Long Hess, 80, of the Brethren Home, New Oxford, died October 25, 2010, at Hanover Hospital after continuing health problems since surgery in January of this year.
She was born on July 7, 1930, in Elkhart, Indiana, to Forrest H. and Esther (Rigney) Long, as Carmena Ann Long, named after the daughter of a doctor her mother worked for. At age 5, she moved with her family to Chicago where she graduated from Hyde Park High School in 1948, and then Chicago Junior City College, Wilson Branch in 1950.
On September 9, 1950, she married the late Merle Edwin Hess, of Chambersburg, a graduate student of the University of Chicago at the time. The family lived in Ohio, Florida, and Illinois as Mr. Hess' banking career led them, and then in June of 1967, moved to a farm north of New Oxford.
By 1968 she enrolled in the Penn State University, Capital Campus, where she received bachelors and graduate degrees in education. She was employed as a New Oxford Elementary School teacher in 1971, where she taught for 22 years, retiring in 1993.
She has resided at the Brethren Home Village Retirement community in New Oxford since 1997.
She was a strong advocate for education and the arts, and was involved in many volunteer activities over the years including; Adult Remedial Reading Program, Hanover, Hanover Library, Hospice-Spring Grove-Hanover, Fine Arts and Recycling work, Brethren Home, and League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania.
She was preceded in death by; her husband, April 14, 2006, and her only sister, Sandra Lipphardt, February 9, 1995, of Grandville, Ohio; and is survived by; a daughter, Judith E. Taylor, of Rohnert Park, Calif.; three sons, David E., and Richard A., both of Hershey, and Robert C., of Coatesville; and seven grandchildren.
She was a member of the Unitarian University Fellowship of Gettysburg. Memorial services will be held Saturday, November 20, 2010, 10:30 a.m., at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Gettysburg 136 S. Stratton St., Gettysburg.
Memorials can be given in the form of donations to New Oxford, or Hanover Libraries. Autobiographies, mysteries, and historical books were her preference.
Condolences to be shared with Carmena's immediate family can be directed to David Hess, 212 Maple Ave, Hershey, PA 17033-1548.
Published in Evening Sun on October 28, 2010 (Hanover, PA)
She was born on July 7, 1930, in Elkhart, Indiana, to Forrest H. and Esther (Rigney) Long, as Carmena Ann Long, named after the daughter of a doctor her mother worked for. At age 5, she moved with her family to Chicago where she graduated from Hyde Park High School in 1948, and then Chicago Junior City College, Wilson Branch in 1950.
On September 9, 1950, she married the late Merle Edwin Hess, of Chambersburg, a graduate student of the University of Chicago at the time. The family lived in Ohio, Florida, and Illinois as Mr. Hess' banking career led them, and then in June of 1967, moved to a farm north of New Oxford.
By 1968 she enrolled in the Penn State University, Capital Campus, where she received bachelors and graduate degrees in education. She was employed as a New Oxford Elementary School teacher in 1971, where she taught for 22 years, retiring in 1993.
She has resided at the Brethren Home Village Retirement community in New Oxford since 1997.
She was a strong advocate for education and the arts, and was involved in many volunteer activities over the years including; Adult Remedial Reading Program, Hanover, Hanover Library, Hospice-Spring Grove-Hanover, Fine Arts and Recycling work, Brethren Home, and League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania.
She was preceded in death by; her husband, April 14, 2006, and her only sister, Sandra Lipphardt, February 9, 1995, of Grandville, Ohio; and is survived by; a daughter, Judith E. Taylor, of Rohnert Park, Calif.; three sons, David E., and Richard A., both of Hershey, and Robert C., of Coatesville; and seven grandchildren.
She was a member of the Unitarian University Fellowship of Gettysburg. Memorial services will be held Saturday, November 20, 2010, 10:30 a.m., at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Gettysburg 136 S. Stratton St., Gettysburg.
Memorials can be given in the form of donations to New Oxford, or Hanover Libraries. Autobiographies, mysteries, and historical books were her preference.
Condolences to be shared with Carmena's immediate family can be directed to David Hess, 212 Maple Ave, Hershey, PA 17033-1548.
Published in Evening Sun on October 28, 2010 (Hanover, PA)
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