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Thomas J. Hess

(10/24/1889 - 5/22/1993)

branch.gif (1966 bytes)Peter Jacob Hess
Thomas J. Hess
Marriage(s)Emma Elizabeth Seip
 1 Emma Keim on:
   Children:
  - Living Hess
  - Harold Paul Hess
 
 2 Verna A. Scheirer on:
  - No Issue
 
  Siblings:
  - Carrie Hess
 
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Notes:
The Express-Times, Monday, May 24, 1993, page B-2
Thomas J. Hess, lived 103 years
Bethlehem \endash Thomas J. Hess, 103, of 533 Dewberry Ave., died Saturday, M ay 22, in Muhlenburg Rehabilitation Center.

He was the owner of the former Hess auto Supply in Bethlehem for 50 yea rs before retiring in 1953.

Born Oct. 24, 1889, in Bethlehem, he was a son of the late Jacob Peter a nd Emma Seip Hess.

He was a 1906 graduate of Bethlehem High School.

He was an Army veteran of World War I.

He was a life member of St. Thomas UCC in Bethlehem and was a member of t he church consistory and the Sunday school.

He was a former board member of the Lehigh Valley Motor Club and a memb er of the Broad & Main Streets Business Association.

He was a member of the American Legion in Bethlehem, the Bethlehem Lions C lub, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in Hecktown and the Bethlehem El ks No. 191.

He was a member of Bethlehem Lodge No. 283 F&AM, the Lehigh Consisto ry in Allentown, the Bethlehem Tall Cedars and the Rajah Temple.

He and his wife, the former Verna A. Scheirer, observed their 55th weddi ng anniversary last June.

In addition to his wife, he is survived by a son, Ray of Bethlehem; and th ree granddaughters, six great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandso n. His first wife, the former Ella Keim, died in 1935, a son, Harold, di ed in 1923,; and a great-granddaughter, Jennifer Woodard, died in 1991.

Services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, from the Long funeral Home, 5 00 Linden St., Bethlehem. Burial will be in Macada Cemetery in Bethlehem.
 
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