2.12.3.3.3.1. William Jerome Hess (1953- )

William Jerome Hess was born on 18 August 1953 in Tazewell County, Virginia, to Winfred Jerome Hess and Bonnie Ann Muir. He was 20 years old when his parents divorced. He married Paula Lorene Ray, daughter of Rev. Wayne and Helen Lorene Ray. She graduated from Paden High School in Paden, Oklahoma, in 1969. Jerome and Paula had three children:

• Jeremy Hess, who is married to a woman named Allison; they have 2 children: William Preston, born in 2013, and Everly JoAnn, born in 2015.
• Paul Jerome Hess, who is married to Christina Hoshall.
• Regina Ann Hess was born on 12 December 1977 in West Plains, Missouri. She was killed in an automobile accident on 12 September 1998 and was interred at Oakdale Cemetery in Paden, Oklahoma.

At some point Jerome and Paula divorced. Paula lived in Newcastle, Oklahoma, with the children and Jerome lived in Greeley, Simla, and Loveland, Colorado, where he lived when his father died in 2012. He was married to a woman named Sue at the time of his father's death.

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph, 21 July 2012
The Daily Oklahoman, 15 September 1998
Global, Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Memorial No. 15796050
US, Phone and Address Directories, 1993-2002, 1993-1994 Hess, Jerome (Greeley, CO)
US, Public Records Index, Volume 1, 1986 Greeley, CO (Hess, Jerome)
US, Public Records Index, Volume 1, 1989 Greeley, CO (Hess, William J)
US, Public Records Index, Volume 2, 1950-1993 Hess, Jerome (Greeley, CO)
US, Public Records Index, Volume 2, 1950-1993 Hess, Jerome (Simla, CO)
US, Public Records Index, Volume 2, 1950-1993 Hess, William J (Loveland, CO)
US, Public Records Index, Volume 2, 1950-1993 Hess, William (Vilas, CO)
US, Virginia Birth Records, 1864-2014, 1953 Hess, William Jerome