Lois Anita Henderson, age 83, a resident of Ft. Scott, Kansas, passed away early Wednesday, October 12, 2022, at the Via Christi Hospital in Pittsburg, Kansas. She was born April 12, 1939, in Ft. Scott the daughter of Andrew James Rose and Veneta Marie Anderson Rose. Lois graduated from the Ft. Scott High School. She married Marvin Henderson on October 4, 1958, at Ft. Scott. Lois began working for Key Industries in 1957. She continued working at Key for over forty years. Lois enjoyed her family, playing bingo and computer games with friends, watching soap operas specifically The Bold and The Beautiful and Days of Our Lives and also watching the Chiefs games with her son, Lyle. She especially enjoyed making what she called cozy quilts to give to family members and friends and truly hoped that they would know the joy she had in planning and making them for each specific person.
Lois wanted her close friends to know how much he treasured their long friendships, talks, and laughter. She was grateful for her dear friend, Jackie Webster, and their daily communications. Lois also wanted her care-givers, Kim, Marlene, Clara and Mary (who named Lois “My Ms. Lou Lou and said God brought them together” to know their help and talks got her through many long days. To everyone that had ever met her and shared memories, the family’s favorite remarks about her will always be “sweetlady” and she was until the very end.
Survivors include her two children, Valorie Leblanc (Pierre) and Lyle Henderson all of Ft. Scott; five grandchildren, Lyle Henderson (Ashley), Ali Dixon (Kyle); Austin Jefferis (Emily), Jean Francois Leblanc and Pierre-Luc Leblanc and three great-grandchildren, Kyler and Brooklyn, Nicolas, and Baby Jefferis on the way. Lois was preceded in death by her husband, Marvin, her son, Kenneth Eugene Henderson; two brothers, Andrew Rose Jr and Gerald Rose and two sisters Jocelyn Rose and Kathryn Tanner.
There was cremation. A private graveside service will be held at the U. S. National Cemetery in Ft. Scott, Kansas. Friends and relatives are invited to sign the register book at Cheney Witt Chapel. Memorials are suggested to the SEK Mental Health Center or Care to Share and may be left in care of the Cheney Witt Chapel, 201 S. Main, P.O. Box 347, Ft. Scott, KS 66701. Words of remembrance may be submitted to the online guestbook at cheneywitt.com.
