Lebanon County PA Archives Obituaries.....Beamesderfer, Barbara Helen Stefan  August 21, 2011
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  Published in Lebanon Daily News on August 26, 2011 
  Barbara Helen Stefan Beamesderfer 
  
  MYERSTOWN Barbara (Betty) Helen Stefan Beamesderfer, 90, died at Good 
  Samaritan Hospital in Lebanon on Sunday, August 21, 2011, after a brief 
  illness. She was born on February 6, 1921, in Lebanon, the third daughter of 
  Joseph Dorner Stefan and Margaret Brenner Stefan. Her parents were immigrants 
  from the towns of Palanka and Brestowatz in the Batschka region of Austria-
  Hungary (now in Serbia), and she was very proud of her "Donauschwaben" 
  heritage. She attended Lebanon schools and graduated from South Lebanon High 
  School. She held a variety of jobs in her life - waitress, clerk, secretary - 
  but for most of her life she was a skilled home health care provider, enabling 
  others to remain comfortably in their own homes. She liked to travel and 
  especially enjoyed remembering her travels with family members to such places 
  as London, Paris, Venice, and Germany and Switzerland. She loved bargain 
  hunting and thrift sales, and never let a family member leave at the end of a 
  visit without some little gift she had been saving for them. She was a 
  dedicated cat lover and had enjoyed the companionship of several cats over the 
  years. She is remembered by her family as a glamorous person whose grooming 
  and clothing were always impeccable, and who willingly indulged visiting 
  little girls with nail polish and dress-up supplies. She was preceded in death 
  by her parents; by her sister, Theresa K. Umberger and her husband, Edmund H. 
  Umberger; and nephew, Stefan H. Umberger. She is survived by her long-time 
  companion, David Levin of Lebanon; sister, Anne M. Stefan, and niece, Juliet 
  A. Umberger and her husband, George T. Edwards, all of Carlisle; and niece, 
  Margaret E. Rockenbeck and her husband, J. David Rockenbeck, and grandnephew, 
  William H. Rockenbeck, his wife, Laurie, and children, Emma and Eli, all of 
  Redmond, Wash. She is also survived by cousins, Charles B. Hirschbock, Frank 
  L. Hirschbock, Dorothy H. Miller, Jeanie H. Dove, and Betsy H. Arnold, all of 
  the Lebanon area. Cremation and inurnment services have been provided by Auer 
  Cremation Services of Pennsylvania. Private interment at Mt. Lebanon Cemetery 
  will be held at a later date. 
  Published in Lebanon Daily News on August 26, 2011 
  
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