Nancy Hetrick (1944-2022)
Pennsylvania Lumber Museum Associates (PALMA)Pennsylvania Lumber Museum
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Nancy Hetrick, along with her husband, Roger, was an active volunteer at the Pennsylvania Lumber Museum for nearly 20 years until she passed away in December 2022. Nancy and Roger were regular patrons of the PA Lumber Museum from the time of its opening in the 1970s. It was a convenient halfway point between their home in Troy and Nancy's childhood home in Kane, so the couple would often meet friends and relatives at the museum to picnic and tour the grounds and exhibits. She and Roger were both educators during their working careers, so when retirement facilitated more time for volunteering, Nancy put her training as an elementary school teacher to good use as a museum volunteer.
Nancy served in the office of Secretary on the PALMA board of directors for over a decade and served on the museum’s interpretive planning committee, helping to shape the educational mission of the museum as well as honing the new interpretive exhibits installed as part of the museum visitor center renovation (2012-2015). Nancy was a founding member of the PALMA events committee, and she had a hand in planning and executing every new event the museum implemented since the committee’s inception in 2015, including Santa in the Shay, Halloween Spooky Lantern Tours, History Camp, and the 3rd weekend educational program series.
In addition to her many monetary and in-kind donations for raffles and door prizes, Nancy donated her time and expertise greeting visitors and working the door-prize table at Antique Show events, running the Apple Pie contest at Bark Peelers’ Festival, and helping to devise the crafts for the Santa and Halloween events. She and Roger often represented the museum at the bi-annual PHMC Council of Associate Presidents meetings, and Nancy was the primary editor of Woodchips, PALMA’s quarterly newsletter.
If there was a way that Nancy could contribute to the museum she cheerily did so. She was a kind and dedicated person who most certainly had a major impact on advancing the mission of the museum. The staff and volunteers of the PA Lumber Museum are grateful for her many years of service. She will be sorely missed.
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