Obit of Hensley, LaNella - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Wanda Purcell 9 Apr 2006 Return to Roger Mills County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== ::Fairview Cemetery--Durham OK Surnames: Hensley, Jones Originally posted at: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5YB.2ACE/6601 LaNella Hensley, age 65, passed away December 12, 2005 in Amarillo, Texas. Services will be held Saturday 17, 2005, at the Durham Community Building in Durham, Oklahoma, with Rev. Rick Parnell, associate pastor of the Central Baptist Church of Pampa, and Rev. Ray Smart, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Durham, officiating. Burial will follow at Fairview Cemetery in Durham, Roger Mills County, Oklahom,a under the direction of Carmichael-Whatley Funeral Directors of Pampa. LaNella Hensley was born November 28, 1940 in Crawford, Oklahoma, to Leslie Landon Hensley and Kate Ella Jones Hensley. She lived in Crawford until the family moved to Durham, Oklahoma in 1957. She attended school in Durhqam until the school's closing in 1958, and transferred to Reydon, Oklahoma, where she graduated in 1960. She had been a resident of Pampa since 1964, working for Marie Foundation and Cabot Corporation, retiring from Cabot in 1999. She was involved in many activities and community organizations, uincluding Meals on Wheels, the American Business Women's Association, Durham Quilting Bees, Durham Willing Workers Club. She was a member of the Central Baptist Church of Pampa. She was preceded in death by her moter, Kate Ella Hensley in 1946, and her father, Leslie Landon Hensley in 1991. She is survived by 3 Brothers, Marvin Hensley & wife Eltha of Pampa, Morris Hensley and wife Francis of Killeen, Texas and Wilbur Hensley & wife Eva of Raywood, 2 nephews, 6 nieces, many great nephews, great niece and cousins. 1 Aunt: Erma Hernsley of Cheyenne, Oklahoma; 1 Uncle: Bill Jones of Dumas, Texas. Memorials can be made to the First Baptist Church, Rt 1, Box 5, Durham, Oklahoma 73642. Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, OK 15-Dec-2005 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Roger Mills Archives http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html