Published May 26. 2020 12:00AM
Jean (Shiner) Batt, 91, of Bethlehem, died May 14, 2020, at St. Luke’s Hospice House. Born in Bethlehem, she was a daughter of the late Bertram F. and Mary Mae (Hess) Shiner. She was the wife of the late Dr. Walter Batt.
She was a 1947 graduate of Liberty HS.
She worked for the Bethlehem Steel. She was the bookkeeper for her husband’s dental practice.
She was a member at Edgeboro Moravian Church where she was a trustee and assisted in the Christmas Putz activities, made sugar cakes and mints and trimmed the beeswax candles.
She was a member of the Red Hat Society. She altered uniforms for the Liberty Grenadier Band. She was a member of the LHS class of 1947 reunion committee.
She is survived by a son, Walter L. Batt III and his wife Susan; four daughters, Sandra Gillen, Barbara Burkhardt and her husband William, Cheryl Perkins and Robyn Batt and her husband John Walton; a brother, Lanny Shiner; a sister, Ruth Allen; 12 grandchildren, Amanda Burkhardt-McGoff and her wife Tara, Andrew Burkhardt and his wife Helen, Megan Terry and her husband Daniel, Kathryn Podhyski and her husband Garrett, Jennifer Vancek and her husband Michal, Thomas J. Panik and his wife Theresa, Jocelyn Perkins, Dylan Perkins, Makenzie Rocha and her husband Victor, Madison Batt, Payton Batt and Jameson Gillen; and 14 great grandchildren.
She was predeceased by a sister, Marjorie L. Shiner; and a brother, Bertram Shiner.
Contributions may be made to Edgeboro Moravian Church, 645 Hamilton Ave., Bethlehem, PA 18017.
Arrangements were made by Cantelmi Long Funeral Home Inc., Bethlehem.
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