HENRY, Thelma Evelyn (nee Schlick) 1910-2003

HENRY, BUTLER, SCHLICK, CHAPIN, SWEET

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 2/1/2009 at 19:00:27

Thelma Evelyn Henry, 92, of Charles City, died Sunday, May 11, 2003, at the Floyd County Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be held 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Hauser Funeral Home, 1205 S. Main Street. Officiating will be Reverend Gayle Wilcox, Trinity United Methodist Church. Visitation will be held Monday from 4 - 6 p.m., and for 1 hour prior to services. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery. Memorials may be directed to Hospice of North Iowa.

Thelma E. Schlick was born August 17, 1910, to Arthur and Mabel (Butler) Schlick in Floyd County, Iowa. Mabel died when Thelma was only 4, and Arthur later married Mary Chapin Sweet.

She attended Charles City High School where she graduated in 1928. After graduating, Thelma moved to Chicago to pursue nursing training at Henrotin Hospital. On May 4, 1929, she was united in marriage to Ralph Henry at the Little Brown Church in Nashua. The couple farmed in the Minneapolis and Floyd areas until they retired in 1972. Thelma and Ralph enjoyed going to their cabin in Minnesota and fishing, they also loved to travel and spent many winters in Florida together. Thelma was a member of the Happy Hour Club.

Thelma is survived and lovingly remembered by her daughter Pamela and her husband Gordon Lassahn of Idaho Falls, Idaho, her grandchildren Steven Henry and his wife Laurie, and Michael Henry. Thelma is also survived by a daughter-in-law Joyce Henry Frisbee, six great grandchildren: Joanne Wilson and husband Jason, Chad Henry, Crystal Henry, Sybil Kramme and husband Todd, Rachel Sweeney and husband Jeremy, and Dan Henry, as well as two great great grandchildren, Cooper and Memphis Sweeney.

She is preceded in death by her husband, her parents, her son Richard Henry, her sister Maxine Coover, her brother Lowell Sweet, and an infant granddaughter Carolyn.