Washington County, OK - Obituary - Viola Pearl Henshall - O162

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Source:  Bartlesville - May 15, 1988
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Mrs. Viola Pearl Henshall nee Overacker

Mrs. Viola Pearl Overacker-Henshall, 69, native area resident, was 
pronounced dead on arrival in the emergency room of Jane Phillips 
Hospital following a pedestrian-automobile accident on Washington 
Boulevard in Bartlesville, OKlahoma.

Funeral services for Mrs. Henshall will be at 10 a.m. Thurday, in 
the Sanctuary of the First Church of the Nazarene.  The Rev. Tom Buron
and the Rev. LeRoy Newport will be the officiants.  Comittal prayers and 
interment will be directed in the Ochelata Cemetery beside the grave of 
Clinton 'Sandy' Henshall by the Arnold Moore Funeral Service.

Mrs. Henshall was born in Ramona on Februrary 17, 1919 to David Anthony and 
Hestella Griffith Overacker.  She was reared in the Ochelata-Ramona communities
and completed her education in the local schools.  She and Raleigh Evans were 
married in Bartlesville, Oklahoma in 1935.  She was later married to Tom Kearns
at Claremore, Oklahoma in 1938.  She and Clinton 'Sandy' Henshall were married 
March 19, 1945 in Sedan, Kansas, and they made their home in Bartlesville where 
he was employed with the National Zinc Co.  Following his retirement in 1972, 
they continued their residency here until his death on August 25, 1979, in 
Bartlesville, Oklahoma.  Mrs. Henshall has continued living here in retirement.

Mrs. Henshall was a member of the James E. Bailey, Post No. 989 Auxilery.  She 
also was a member of the Women of the Moose Lodge No. 1322, the Baretlesvile 
Eagles Lodge Auxiliary and the James H. Teel American Legion Post No. 165 Auxiliary.

Mrs. Henshall will be in state in the Drawing Room of the Arnold Moore Funeral 
Residence where friends may call for visitation until she is removed to the 
church for services.
Mrs. Henshall is survived by four sons, Jerry Henshall, Bartlesville, Bill 
Eugene Evans, Ochelata, William Edward Henshall, Pixley, California, and 
Clinton Edward Henshall, Bartlesville.  Two daughters, Mrs. Charles 
(Barbara) Pendergraff, Agra, Oklahoma, and Mrs. Lewis (Donna) Labache, 
Bartlesville; one brother, Roy Overacker, Barnsdall; five sisters, Mrs. 
Dolly Tennant, Ochelata; Mrs, Fern (Mary) Ford, Bartlesville; Mrs, Mart 
(Allie) Newport, Wapato, Washington; Mrs. Dan (Rose) Newport, Yakima, 
Washington; and Mrs. Charles (Beulah) Castleman, Ochelata; 21 grandchildren 
and 17 great-grandchildren.

Dated May 15, 1988