The Chickasha Express-Star
29 July 2002

 

OLETA [SIZEMORE] HENSLEY

 

Funeral service for Oleta (Sizemore) Hensley, 70, of Amber,
Oklahoma, will be held at 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, July 30, 2002, in the
Chapel of Sevier Funeral Home.

Oleta (Sizemore) Hensley was born July 18, 1937, in Chickasha,
Oklahoma, the daughter of Thomas Franklin and Minerva Jane (Townley)
Goen, and died July 27, 2002, in her home in Amber, Oklahoma, after
a brief bought with cancer.

She married Thurman (Bill) Sizemore on March 8, 1958, in Chickasha. 
He preceded her in death on March 28, 1991.  She later married John
Hensley on December 30, 1998.  Mrs. Hensley was a long time resident
of Chickasha, Rush Springs and Amber.  She was a devoted mother and
wife.  She worked for 20 years for the Postal Service and delivered
the star route, was a Chickasha school bus driver and worked for the
Amber-Pocasset Co-op Children with Special Needs.  Mrs. Hensley was
a member of the 9th and Colorado Church of Christ.

She was also preceded in death by:  mother:  Minerva (Townley) Goen;
father: Thomas Franklin Goen; 2 sisters:  Ruby May Edzards and Mary
Beatrice Jacobson; 1 brother:  Thomas James Goen.

Survivors include:  Husband:  John Hensley; 2 sons and their wives: 
Bill and Kim Sizemore of Edmond, OK and Mickey and Regina Sizemore
of Fayetteville, N. C.; 1 daughter and her husband:  JoAnna and
Eddie Goff of Peru, South America; 1 daughter-in-law:  Vickey
Sizemore of Chandler, Oklahoma; 1 brother-in-law:  Russell Jacobson
of Sioux Falls, South Dakota; 9 grandchildren; many nieces, nephews
and a host of friends.

Interment will be in the Rush Springs Cemetery under the direction
of Sevier Funeral Home.