- Date Of Birth: April 24, 1948
- Date Of Death: June 26, 2022
- State: Pennsylvania
Jessica W. Heath, 74, of Williamsport, passed away peacefully on Sunday, June 26, 2022 at the Williamsport South Rehabilitation and Nursing Center. Born in Williamsport on April 24, 1948, she was a daughter of Lewis W. Heath and Jean Barbour Heath.
Jessica was a graduate of Williamsport Area High School and earned a bachelor’s degree in art from Penn State University. She worked as a banker before further sharpening her drawing and painting skills by studying at the Corcoran College of Arts and Design in Washington, D.C.
Mountain vistas fed Jessica’s artistic spirit, as she found great satisfaction from getting outside and working directly from nature with fellow plein air painters. Jessica was active in the local art scene as a participant in solo and group shows. Her involvement included the Arts Council of the Southern Finger Lakes, Bald Eagle Art League, Pennsylvania Watercolor Society, Susquehanna Valley Plein Air Painters, Mid Atlantic Plein Air Painters, and Central Pennsylvania Pastel Society. She was honored to exhibit at the Pennsylvania Governor’s Award celebration and to have her work included in the Susquehanna Health Tower Project.
Jessica’s artistic pursuits also focused on equine and canine portraiture done on commission. Her goal in this work was always to capture the spirit of the animal, as well as the love its owner has for it.
Friends and family will remember Jessica for her intelligence, fierce independence, sense of humor, and no-nonsense approach to life.
Jessica is survived by her niece, Natalie Torentinos of Arlington, Va.; by her cousins and their wives Lt. Col. Robert D. Heath Jr., USA ret., and Diane M. Childs, of Villanova, Peter S. and Barbara A. Heath, of Danville, David J. and Sally K. Heath, of Danville, Ellen W. and Barry R. Reynolds, of Danville, Richard G. Heath, of Danville, and Taylor L.W. and Mary E. Heath, of Danville; and by her cousins Susan Heath of New York, N.Y., and Elizabeth Heath Allen of Port Townsend, Wash.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her sister, Margery Torentinos.
