Hershner Crossdied peacefully at Kendal-at-Hanover in Hanover, NH, two months short of his 100th birthday.

He is survived by his second wife, Jacqueline Bowers Cross, of Kendal; three daughters, Linda Cross More of Cary NC, Midge Cross (Scott Johnston) of Mazama WA, and N. Nora Cross of Wenatchee, WA; grandchildren Christopher G. Cross (Pauline) of New York City, Juliet Harrington, Marietta, GA, Andrew H. Cross (Mary), Boulder, CO, Christal McDougall (John Lehman), Boulder, CO, and Brian McDougall (Nika), Miami FL and Boulder CO; and four great-grandchildren: Olivia-Lea Cross, Hannah Lehman, Colton Peters Cross, and Moses McDougall.

Hersh was born in Aiken, SC and grew up in Baltimore MD. Boyhood summers were spent in Randolph NH, where his grandfather George Newton Cross was the first in the family to purchase property. He graduated from Johns Hopkins in Baltimore in 1937 and Harvard Business School in 1939.

He met his wife Daphne Joensson in Randolph, and they were married in the Randolph Church. Hersh served in the U.S. Army during World War II, rising to the rank of Lt. Colonel.

Following the war he joined the General Electric Company, holding positions in a number of divisions which necessitated moving often throughout the Northeast. He retired from GE as a Senior Vice-President in 1978, and thereafter served on a number of boards of directors as well as being Chairman of the consulting firm Cambridge Research Institute. Hersh and Daphne retired to Randolph, NH but enjoyed spending winters in San Diego, CA, and travelling abroad. They were among the early residents at Kendal-at-Hanover, where they spent more time as the years passed. Hersh was active for some time in presenting and attending the adult education courses at ILEAD.

Hersh was a founding member and President of the Randolph Foundation charitable organization, a member of the Randolph Mountain Club, and several golf clubs. His wife Daphne passed away from cancer in 1995. In 1997 he and Jackie Bowers, whose husband George had died several years prior, decided to tie the knot with, as they liked to say, a total of well over a hundred years of marriage between them.

The town of Randolph was always an important part of Hersh's life and he was most pleased at having been able to donate a new tracker organ to the Randolph Church and to assist the town in enlarging and improving the Town Hall so that it could become the heart of community activities.

A memorial celebration will be held in summer 2016, in Randolph.

Arrangements are under the direction of the Rand-Wilson Funeral Home of Hanover, NH.