Obits Sheridan County Wyoming

HENDERSON RITES TO BE HELD HERE
Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Champion Drawing Room for George R. Henderson, 62, who died January 12 at Thermopolis, Wyo. The Rev. Donald G. Smith will officiate. Henderson, who was born in Boston, Mass., on Feb. 4, 1879, had been employed as a mine electrician at the Sheridan Wyoming Coal company at Acme, Wyo., for 20 years prior to making his home in Thermopolis. He was a member of the United Mine Workers, Local 239.

Henderson is survived by his wife, Mrs. Grace Henderson, of Thermopolis; six daughters, Mrs. William Norris, of Hanna, Wyo.; Mrs. J.L. Bethurem, of Sheridan; Mrs. Virgil Tucker, of Kincaid, Kan.; Mrs. Bert Klopp, of Cheyenne, Wyo.; and NeRoma and Hauretta Henderson of Thermopolis; one sone, Oscar Henderson, of Acme; one brother, John Henderson, of Thornburn, Nova Scotia; and nine grandchildren and three great grandchildren.

Henderson, Grace Mary

Sheridan Press, Tuesday, March 17, 1953, page 2

Grace Henderson Funeral Thursday
Funeral services will be held 1 p.m. Thursday at Champion's for Mrs. Grace Mary Henderson, 73, 435 East Nebraska, who died Sunday night. The Rev. Claude W. Lawton will officiate.

Mrs. Henderson was born Oct. 24, 1879, at Qutnam, Mo., and came to Wyoming in 1901. She resided in Kemmerer before locating here in 1922. Her husband, George Robert, died in 1942.

Surviving are six daughters, Mrs. Leland Bethurem, Sheridan; Mrs. William Norris, Long Beach, Calif.; Mrs. Virgil Tucker, Kincaide, Kan.; Mrs. Bert Klopp, Long Beach, Calif.; Mrs. Thomas Sowder, Globe, Ariz.; Mrs. Michael Todorovich, Thermopolis; one son, Oscar, Thermopolis; stepchildren, Mrs. Vern Rood, Glendale, Calif., Gilbert Hagey, Pocatello, Ida.; sister, Mrs. Lillian Weddell, Startup, Wash.; half-brother, Charles Roney, Lismore, Minn,; 19 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren.