Gregg Co., TX - Obits - Blanche Killingsworth Henderson Abney

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Blanche Killingsworth Henderson Abney


Blanche Killingsworth Henderson Abney passed away on Thursday, March 11, 2004
with her family at her side in College Station. A visitation and prayer
service will be conducted by Rev. Bob Waters at Hillier Funeral Home on
Friday, March 12, at 7:00 pm. Funeral services will be conducted by the Rev.
Tim Watson, of First Baptist Church, Longview and by Dr. Jerry Neff, Minister
of A&M United Methodist Church in College Station on Saturday, March 13, at
1:00 pm at the First Baptist Church in Longview, Texas. There will be a
visitation in the chapel at 12:00 noon, prior to the service. Burial will
follow the service at Memory Park Cemetery, Longview, Texas.


Blanche was the second child of Samuel Abney Killingsworth and Florence Ann
Leath Killingsworth. She was born August 30, 1909, at the family home north of
Longview, Texas. As a young child she attended Forest Hill Baptist Church with
her family and she often recalled riding a donkey named July to attend her
first school that was located at the Alpine Presbyterian Church community. She
joined the First Baptist Church, Longview, when she was 11 years old. She
later taught Sunday School and was Superintendent of the fourteen year old
Sunday School department. She married Lewis Henderson on April 19, 1927, and
became the loving mother of his son by his first wife Gladys Rebecca
Killingsworth. She and Lewis Henderson had one child, Blanche Henderson, born
November 26, 1939.


After the death of Lewis Henderson in 1952, Blanche worked as secretary to the
principal of Longview High School and as the file clerk F.R. Jackson Oil
Company. In 1960 she married Zach Abney of Marshall and they lived in Longview
until his death in 1984. In 1995 she moved to College Station, Texas to live
with her daughter and son-in-law Bob and Blanche Brick.


Blanche Killingsworth Henderson Abney was a member of the First Baptist
Church, Longview, the East Texas Historical Association, the Texas State
Historical Association, the Southern Historical Association, and a major
contributor to a family history of "Marry (Barry) and William Barry Henderson,
Their Forebears and Descendants."


She was a keen student of the Bible who loved working in her church, spending
time with her family, gardening, sewing, reading, researching genealogy, and
taking care of her dogs, Happy and Buddy. She was a wonderful cook whose lemon
meringue pies and coconut cakes will always be remembered by those fortunate
enough to have enjoyed them.....as she will always be remembered by those who
were fortunate enough to have known and loved her.


She is survived by her son Richard Lewis Henderson and his wife Elma Jean of
Midland, Texas and by her daughter, Blanche Henderson Brick and her husband,
Robert W. Brick of College Station, Texas.


She is also survived by her grandchildren, Susan Askins and Richard Eanes
(Rick) Henderson of Midland and Kathleen Brick, John and his wife, Jamee Brick
of Houston. She has four great-grandchildren, Mason and Cooper Askins of
Midland and Kendall Smith and her husband Russell of Midland and Hannah Grace
Brick of Houston and one great-great-granddaughter, Elizabeth Ann Smith of
Midland.


She is also survived by numerous nieces and nephews and their families who she
loved and cherished as part of her family.


She will be remembered by all who knew her as a kind, gracious and beautiful
woman of great faith who was always willing to share in the joys and the
sorrows of her family and friends. And she will be sorely missed by all who
had the privilege of knowing her warm smile and wonderful heart. She will be
remembered as a virtuous woman "whose price is far above that of rubies."


Hillier Funeral Home