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Jerry M. & JoAn Hess
17330 Madison Rd
Nampa, ID 83687
(208) 466-3950
jmhess@hess.net

The Hesses have been called on a mission to Palmyra! (9/99)

Dear Russ

It is good to hear from you again.

Yes---Sister Hess and I have been called to be the director of the Palmyra/Sacred Grove
visitor center in New York. We will supervise the Grandin Bldg. where the Book of Mormon was
printed, Martin Harris farm, The small home where Moroni visited Joseph, The large Smith family
home, the sacred grove, the Hill Cumorah, the pageant with 600 participants I'm told,the Peter
Whitmer home where the church was organized and all that goes with the above issues.That area
is the cradle of the restoration and a very sacred and significant site for ever. It is my
understanding a new visitor center along with the temple and other renovations will be and are
taking place. We will be assigned for two years.

We leave in February.We have been and are going to Salt Lake again in Oct. for specific
instructions about our assignment.Some 300,000 visitors pass through that center each year with
the number growing steadily.

We are pleased to do whatever is asked of us and hope to do our best. We are concluding all the
issues at home as quickly as we can so as to provide complete dedication to the work in the
mission field.

We had been planning a 10 year reunion for next Oct. Jonathen Hansen and myself with sister
Hess had been working on the preliminary action items when this call came. We were going to have a
well planned event. That process is now in limbo as I will not be able to attend it. It might
be well if some of you still continue the process. Sister Hess and I would be able to speak to
you on a conference call basis during the reunion--- if you would like.

Anyway-- you do as you feel would be proper. When I get released in two years we will
schedule a reunion regardless. I would so like to see all of you again. It was decided with
so many scattered around the world and college it would be difficult to get
many there before 10 years, and the brethren counseled us to have them sparingly. After 10
years most would be out of school and more likely to attend.

Please keep me informed.
I love you
President Hess


A Letter From Jerry M. Hess

President Jerry M. Hess sent me an update on what he is doing these days so that I could post the information on this website. You should know that I wrote to him to request that I could post his email address on this website. He originally wrote back saying "no" because he had recently undergone surgery. Now, about a month later he is fully recovered. The letter below is dated 5/23/97.

Dear Elder Hill:

I can type now {hunt and peck} I mean. It would be great to hear from as many of the missionaries as would like to send messages. It would be fine to send out my address. I caution about how soon I would be able to respond as I am out of town much of the next 6 weeks and or burried in meetings etc.

I have begun aggressively persuing a new business venture piloted in the Idaho area and now extending into the Denver colo. and SLC areas, which when properly tweaked and successful will lead to other states involvement. Until this project is fully launched{which is estimated to be sometime early 98} .I will be out of the office much of the time and limited availability.

At the conclusion of above, sister Hess and myself are discussing possibility of returning to the mission field, Possibly with pres. Bodhain from riverside stake who is called to serve in Africa.

We also speak with pres. McKell and Christensen often and plan a vistit to Georgia to visit McKells soon. We have been very busy as usual. The past 6 months I have taught a missionary training class for the stake attended by some 50 or 60 prospective missionarys, couples as well as youth. I enjoy it very much.

Also I sit on the boards of Micron Tech. As well as micron electronics. Both are very time consuming. Also as you reported, I was just reappointed to the Idaho satae board of education and chair of the finance committee which does much of the work for the board.

Good to hear from you.

Keep those temple recomends cerrent and use them.That is the only real ticket we have.

God Bless J. Hess

Some More Info

Here is some more information that I've been able to collect on President Hess. Hess is one of five men on Micron Technology Inc.'s board of directors. Micron is a multi-billion dollar computer company based in Idaho. President Jerry M. Hess is also one of eight members of the Idaho State Board of Education.

President Hess was appointed to the board in April, 1995. You may not know this, but our former mission president has a background in education leadership. He served on the Nampa School Board from 1971 to 1980. He was involved in the Idaho State School Board Trustees Association from 1979 to 1980. Another note: President Hess has also been involved in Scouting since the mission. He served for a while as a member of the Executive Board of Directors of the Ore-Ida Council of Boy Scouts of America.

President Hess continues to run his construction company, J.M. Construction Company. That business started up in 1959.

President Hess's call to serve in Riverside

Jerry M. Hess, 52, Nampa 1st Ward, Nampa Idaho Stake; mission president's executive assistant, former stake president's counselor, high councilor, bishop and counselor, Sunday School president, and elders quorum president; self-employed; studied at Boise State University; born in Preston, Idaho, a son of Lewis William and Orvilla Moser Hess; married Joan Elaine Hughes; six children. She is visiting teacher, former Relief Society president's secretary and Mia Maid adviser; born in Nampa, Idaho, a daughter of Lloyd Rufus and Mary Elizabeth Daniel Hughes.
Appeared in the Saturday, February 17, 1990 edition of the LDS Church News.

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