Hensley, Kathaleen Williams

Funeral services for Kathaleen Williams Hensley, 91, of the Spring Hill 
Community in Longview, will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, July 5, 2007, at 
Elmira Chapel Cumberland Presbyterian Church, with the Rev. James Cantey 
officiating. Interment will follow in the Elmira Chapel Cemetery, under 
the direction of Rader Funeral Home.

Mrs. Hensley passed away Sunday, July 1, 2007, at Good Shepherd Medical 
Center in Longview, following a short illness.

Born October 5, 1915, in Cherokee County, to James Thomas "Tom" and Vernie 
Williams, she was lovingly known as "Nana" to her grandchildren, great-
grandchildren and all their friends. She was a graduate of Dialville High 
School in Cherokee County and married R.G. Hensley in 1935.

R.G. and Kathaleen Hensley and their two children moved from Jacksonville, 
to the Spring Hill Community in 1945, where Mr. Hensley was first high 
school principal and later superintendent of the Spring Hill school 
district for many years. Mrs. Hensley worked for a time as a saleslady for 
Fedway, Thompsons, and McIntosh in Longview in the 1950s. She and her 
husband relocated to Parker, Ariz., in 1965, where they lived for two years 
before moving to the Washington, D.C. area, where Mr. Hensley was employed 
by the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs and Kathaleen served as a teacher's 
aide at one of the elementary schools in Alexandria, Va.

They returned to Longview in 1971, where Mrs. Hensley, affectionately known 
as "Kathy" by her students and co-workers, served as a teacher's aide in the 
special education departments of several Longview ISD schools.

Mrs. Hensley was a long-time active member of Elmira Chapel Cumberland 
Presbyterian Church. She was an avid gardener and a member of the garden 
club. She was very creative and artistic and loved to sew, crochet, and 
quilt, having several award-winning quilts to her credit.

Mrs. Hensley was preceded in death by her husband of 68 years, Mr. R.G. 
Hensley.

She is survived by one sister, Lela Mae Williams Moore of Houston; two 
children, Jerry Hensley of Houston and Dr. Barbara Hensley Modisette of 
Longview; son-in-law, James "Jody" Modisette of Longview; four grandchildren, 
Tom Hensley and wife, Stacy of Houston, Philip Modisette and spouse, Juanita 
of Atlanta, Ga., Bret Modisette and wife, Della of Grand Prairie and Jay 
Modisette of Longview; step-great-grandchildren, Sharon "Sherrie" Stoltmann, 
Brian Young and Colin Young, all of Atlanta, Ga., Kennedy and Maggie Simpson 
and Madison and Mason Bartley, all of Tatum.

Visitation for friends and relatives will be held from 3-5 p.m. Wednesday 
evening, July 4, 2007, at the funeral home.

A memorial guestbook may be signed at www.raderfh.com.

Published in the Longview News-Journal on 7/3/2007.