KENOSHA, WIS. â âOur mother passed away at the age of 92 years old on Oct. 22, 2020. As she wished, she was home and surrounded by her family as she departed to her heavenly home,â the family of Betty Jean (Hess) Boness said.
She was born Sept. 9, 1928, in Kankakee.
Betty was the ninth of ten children born to William and Sarah (Jeanette) Hess.
She was educated at St. Paul Lutheran Parochial School until eighth grade and graduated from Kankakee High School. She met her husband, Francis Boness, the love of her life, at his uncleâs farm in Herscher. They fell in love and were married May 23, 1953, in Kankakee.