Mary Hershey

(August 7, 1929 – December 29, 1996)

Mary Hershey (née Gibson) was a Scotland-born Los Angeles fan, a member of LASFS from the 1950s at least through the ’70s.

She was married to Alan Hershey, his second wife. In The Outlander 7 (June 1951), he wrote:

I am seeing a good deal of a Scottish girl, Mary Gibson, who is staying with the Ackermans for a couple of months. The situation appears to be fairly serious, and I have taken steps to find out about going to a Scottish university this summer on the GI Bill.

Mary and Alan wed in 1952 and lived in Scotland for a time. By late 1952, they were back in California, where they had five children by 1963. One of them, Allison Hershey, remains a fan. Mary became a naturalized United States citizen in ’63.

Photo in LASFS Album.

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Person

1929—1996

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