Barbara Anne Shoener Hess
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Barbara Anne (Shoener) Hess, 87, of Caswell Beach, North Carolina, formerly of Hershey, passed away on July 20, 2022. Barbara also lived in Bel Air, MD and Sterling, VA.
She was born January 13, 1935, in Abington, PA, daughter of the late Willard and Anne (Kunkel) Shoener and raised in Ambler, PA and Chatham, NJ.
Mrs. Hess was a schoolteacher in the Hershey School system after graduating from Shippensburg Teachers College before moving to Maryland and being a mom to three sons. She loved to travel and during her lifetime visited 19 countries and most of the U.S. states.
Barbara is survived by; son, William P. "Bill" Hess and partner Meredith, Blaine T. Hess and wife Tami and Karl E. Hess and wife Sue; grandsons, Colin and wife Emily and Brandon and wife Anna along with special friend Lurene Reck.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Thomas Lee Hess and brother Thomas Shoener
A community memorial service will be held in Caswell Beach North Carolina where she lived for the past 29 years on Saturday, July 23, 2022 at 4:30PM on the Tom Hess Way beach access walkway.
A memorial service will be held on Saturday, July 30, 2022, at Noon in the Hoover Funeral Home, 88 Lucy Ave., Hershey. The family will begin receiving guests at 11AM. A private interment will follow in the Hershey Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, the family prefers memorial contributions be made in her memory to either the Lustgarten Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research at events.lustgarten.org or the Caswell Beach Turtle Watch at P.O. Box 201, Oak Island, NC 28465
Send condolences via the online guest book at www.hooverfuneralhome.com
Services entrusted to Peacock, Newnam and White Southport, NC