HENRY, Jennie Pearl (Slinger) 1911-2001

HENRY, SLINGER, SCHNEIDER

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 1/21/2009 at 12:57:10

Jennie Henry

Jennie P. (Mrs. Ray) Henry, 90, 602 Eleventh Street, Charles City, [Floyd county, Iowa] and formerly of 108 Park Ave., Charles City and 1250 Rampart Avenue, rural Floyd, died Monday, June 18, 2001, at the Eleventh Street Chautauqua Guest Home, Charles City, following an extended illness.

A funeral service for Jennie Henry will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, June 21, at the St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church, Main and Gilbert streets, Charles City. The Reverend Dennis D. Niezwaag will officiate. Burial will be in the Calvary Cemetery, Charles City.

Friends may call from 4-8 p.m. Wednesday at the Fullerton Hage Funeral Home, 401 Blunt St., Charles City. Visitation will continue one hour prior to services at the church on Thursday.

Mrs. Henry, the former Jennie Pearl Slinger, was born Feb. 9, 1911, in Riverton Township, rural Charles City, and the daughter of Fred and Marie (Schneider) Slinger. She attended country school and graduated from Charles City Community High School in 1928. Jennie then received her normal training to teach school. She taught in rural schools prior to her marriage.

On Jan. 1, 1939, at the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church Rectory, she was united in marriage to Ray L. Henry. For 54 years, the couple made their home in rural Floyd, where Jennie was busy in all the activities of being a wife, mother and homemaker. It was there that Jennie developed a fond love for raising flowers, produce in her garden, chickens and sheep. Mrs. Henry was a member of St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church, the Royal Neighbors, the Charles City Women's Club, the neighborhood Birthday Club and the FCNB Heritage Club.

Those thankful for sharing Jennie's life are her husband of over 60 years, Ray of Charles City; her two children and their spouses, Elaine and Bill Springenburg of Charles City, and Delwyn and Lois Henry of Floyd; a sister, Mrs. Bernice Hobert of Charles City and a brother, Glenn Slinger of Charles City; five grandchildren, Randall Knutson and his wife Michele, Curt Knutson, Robert Henry and his wife Jill, Jana Henry and Grant Henry; and seven great-grandchildren.

Her parents and two sisters and brothers-in-law, Dorothy and Oscar Gabel, Grace Slinger, and Melvin Hobert, precede her in death.