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Hershey, Bessie Irene
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| LAST: Hershey
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FIRST: Bessie
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MID: Irene
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| GENDER: F
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| BORN: 20 Jun 1920
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DIED: 4 Jan 1994
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OCCUPATION: Legal Secretary
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| BIRTH PLACE: Eddyville, Lincoln Co., Oregon
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| DEATH PLACE: Portland, Multnomah Co., Oregon
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NOTES:
Name of father Homer Hayden Hershey
Maiden name of mother Elsie May Allen
1930 CENSUS - Bessie Hershey, age 11, b. Oregon, is enumerated as granddaughter in the home of John Harvey Brown, age 57, engineer, b. Oregon, and his wife Mary, age 60, b. Illinois, along with Dalton Hershey, age 19, occupation cement mixer, b. Ohio, DeeVeere Hershey, age 12, b. Oregon, and Jennie Hershey, age 11, b. Oregon
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OBITUARY:
Bessie Irene Hershey of Southeast Portland, a retired Portland legal secretary, died of pneumonia Jan. 4 in a Portland care center. A funeral has been held. Mrs. Hershey was 73.
She was born June 20, 1920, in Eddyville and lived most of her life in the Portland area. She was a graduate of Oregon State College, now OSU. Mrs. Hershey worked as a laboratory technician for a local hospital and had been employed as a real estate agent. She also had worked as a legal secretary for a local law firm.
Survivors include her sisters, Dora Pope of Portland and Jennie Vicars of Birkenfeld, in Columbia County.
Burial was in Pioneer Cemetery in Brooks.
Oregonian, The (Portland, Oregon) 13 Jan 1994, pg D07
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INSCRIPTION:
Beloved Sister
Bessie A. Hershey
June 20, 1920 - Jan. 4, 1994
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SOURCES:
Hollin
Saucy Survey & Photographs
ODI
1930 OR CENSUS (Benton Co., Corvallis, ED 19, sheet 2B)
Oreg 13 Jan 1994, pg D07
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