Obit of Henderson, Ervin L (h635) - Washington County, Oklahoma

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Amarillo Globe News 16 Sep 1998
Ervin L. Henderson

PAMPA - Ervin L. "Smiley" Henderson, 83, died Monday, Sept. 14, 1998.

Memorial services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in the First Presbyterian 

Church with Dr. Edwin Cooley and the Rev. Robin Gantz officiating. 
Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday in Niotaze, Kan. 
Arrangements are by CarmichaelWhatley Funeral Directors.

Mr. Henderson was born in Niotaze. He graduated from Pampa High School in 
1933. He served as city secretary in the late 1930s and entered the 
military in 1939, attaining the rank of second lieutenant in the Army Air 
Corps.

He married Hannah Elizabeth Yoe in 1945 at Bartlesville, Okla. They 
returned to Pampa where he joined the Federal Land Bank Association as its 
secretarytreasurer. He then became a registered agent with the Equitable 
Life Assurance Society of America in 1957 and continued his association 
with that company until 1985, achieving chartered life underwriter 
certification.

While living in Pampa, he served as a city commissioner, on the Highland 
General Hospital board, as a president of the Pampa Chamber of Commerce, 
president of the Pampa Kiwanis Club, and a member and an elder of the 
First Presbyterian Church.

He also was a member of the selective service board, chairman of the Frank 
Carter FFA Scholarship Committee for 20 years, election judge in Gray 
County for many years, president of the Pampa Band Boosters, and an 
organizer of the Pampa Tennis Club.

Survivors include his wife; two daughters, Harriet of Gaithersburg, Md. 
and Anne of Alexandria, Va.; two sons, George of Austin and Frank of 
Beaumont; two sisters, Betty Behne of Sunray and Donna Wilson of Sulphur, 
La.; and six grandchildren.

The family requests memorials be to the Book of Remembrance; First 
Presbyterian Church, 525 N. Gray, Pampa; or a favorite charity.

Friends are invited to visit at the home from 5 to 7 p.m. today.
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