The Longview Daily News, Sun., Dec. 22, 1940:

Funeral services for Robert E. HENDERSON, 54, will be held Monday at 1 PM at the Alpine Presbyterian church, with the burial in the Alpine cemetery. His parents, the late Mr. 
and Mrs. J. L. Henderson, were prominent in this section where they were among the early 
settlers.

Henderson died early Saturday in a Dallas hospital following a brief illness.

Survivors included his wife the former Pearl Thornton of Longview, one son Robert Jr., 
Ft. Bliss, El Paso; two daughters, Dorothy and Mary Frances of Dallas, and one brother 
Lewis Henderson of Longview; three sisters, Mrs. Crown Dickson and Mrs. W. L. Dodson, 
both of Kilgore, and Mrs. T. J. Green of Tyler.