Janie Hilda Jane Henderson

Hilda Jane Nuse preferred to be called Janie. She was born in Oswalt Oklahoma on August 10, 1923, while her parents, F.M. and Rosa Nuse, from Mississippi were traveling. She was the first in her family to be born in a hospital. Her family moved frequently in her early years but she spent most of her time in Neshoba County Mississippi, and Franklin Texas and graduated high school in Jacksonville Texas. After high school she came to Dallas where her sister Pauline helped her find work and an active social life. In 1948 she was introduced to Jack Henderson who was the nephew of the owner of the boarding house in Oak Cliff, where she and her mother were living. They married on July 10, 1949. She was a devoted wife and mother but maintained her independence working for a time at Lone Star Gas Company and then for 25 years at Mobil Oil in Dallas as a book keeper and keypunch entry clerk. Janie and Jack raised their family in Oak Cliff and moved to Desoto in 1975. They were active in the Southwest Baptist Church on Belt Line, the evening meals they prepared each Wednesday were always enjoyed. In the later years she welcomed family and friends to her house and provided enjoyable conversation but always accompanied by food. She was preceded in death by her husband of 58 years, Jack Prince Henderson, her brothers James Barron Nuse (Ted), Louis Colby Nuse, Clarence M. Nuse (Bud), and her sister Pauline Bradley. She is survived by her children, Paula Melinda Pennington, Jack Francis Henderson, and Stephen Phillip Henderson, her grandchildren Jennifer Shireman, Stephanie Culverhouse, Kerri Denell, Matthew Henderson, and Stephen Henderson, her step-grandchildren, Saundra, Cheryl, Sara and Charlotte Pennington, Kelli, Michael, and Lee McDaniel, Kelly and Julie Miles, and 18 great grandchildren. She will be missed greatly.