Henry, Hazel Laverne 


GILMER -- Services for Hazel Laverne Henry, 89, of Gilmer, formerly of the Little 
Mound Community and Amarillo, Texas, will be held 2 p.m. Sunday, January 29, 2006, 
at Croley Funeral Home Chapel, with Brother Charles Johnson and the Reverend Dicky 
Mauk officiating. Burial will follow in Little Mound Cemetery. No formal visitation 
will be held. Mrs. Henry passed away Thursday, January 26, 2006, in Gilmer. Hazel was 
born May 31, 1916, in Little Mound, formerly the Old Calloway Community in western 
Upshur County, to the late Thomas Franklin and Georgia Ann Langford, and was the last 
of 11 children born to Tom and Georgia. Hazel was married to Cleo Clinton Henry in 
1934. They moved to the Panhandle of Texas in the late 1940s, and raised their two 
children in Amarillo, then retired to Little Mound. Hazel was a member of the First 
Church of the Nazarene in Amarillo and Little Mound Missionary Baptist Church. She 
worked in Amarillo school system cafeterias. She was a "world class' mother, cook, 
and homemaker. She had an iron will and a steel constitution. She was an example 
worthy of emulation. Survivors include her daughter and son-in-law, Gracie Nell and 
Gene Minter of Little Mound; son and daughter-in-law, Donald Bert and Paula Henry of 
Tyler; five grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces, nephews, 
and other relatives.

Published in the Longview News-Journal on 1/28/2006.