Antoinette French Hershey

Antoinette French Hershey died on March 11, 2025, at the age of 76, after a long illness. Born in New Orleans to Aldus Lintner Hershey and Ruth Elizabeth (French) Hershey, Toni lived in Pasadena, CA for the first half of her life and in Acton, MA for the remainder. She earned a BA degree in psychology from Northwestern University and a master's degree in computer science from University of California at Santa Barbara. She worked for over two decades as a software engineer at Prime Computer and Verizon Services, where together with her colleagues, she was awarded three patents. She was preceded in death by her parents, her brother Bruce Lintner Hershey, and her sister Christina Gayle Hershey. Burial was private.