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Submitted: 6/27/21 • Approved: 6/27/21 • Last Updated: 6/30/21 • R431690-G431689-S3
1915-2000
Photo, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Jewel A. Henson, 84, of Amarillo, died Friday, Aug. 4, 2000.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday in First Baptist Church Sanctuary with the Rev. Jeff Raines, associate pastor, officiating. Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Monday in Highland Park Cemetery at Borger. Arrangements are by Memorial Park Funeral Home, 6969 E. Interstate 40.
Mrs. Henson was born in Lone Wolf, Okla. A 1935 graduate of Oklahoma Normal School, she was a member of First Baptist Church, where she taught Faith Sunday school class and was the dietitian. She was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary, where she was past state president, and Avon Corporation President's Club.
She married Willard W. Henson in 1935 at Memphis, Texas. He died in 1994. She was also preceded in death by two sons, Benny David Henson and Roy Leon Henson.
Survivors include a daughter, Sue Enoch of Memphis, Tenn.; two sons, Ralph W. Henson of Amarillo and Charles W. Henson of Overland Park, Kan.; two sisters, Geneva Gilreath of Amarillo and Mary Lou Weeden of Waco; 12 grandchildren; and 16 great-grandchildren.
Visitation will be from 2 p.m. until 4 p.m. today at the funeral home.
The family will be at 1917 S. Jackson St., and suggests memorials be to M.D. Anderson Hospital in Houston; St. Jude's Hospital; or BSA Hospice in Amarillo.
(Published in Amarillo Sunday News-Globe, Aug. 6, 2000)
Contributed on 6/27/21
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