Dorothy M. Henry

Dorothy M. Henry 73, of Wetmore, Kansas, died Tuesday, December 5, at her home in Wetmore.
     She was born July 23, 1927, on a farm east of Kelly, Kansas, the daughter of Henry and Josephine Sextro Boeckman. She graduated from St. Bede's Grade School at Kelly and the Kelly High School in 1945, and later attended Mount St. Scholastica College at Atchison for a year and Chillicothe Business College at Chillicothe, Missouri. She worked as a secretary for John Morrell & Co. and as a bookkeeper for Henry Bro. Farm and Ffog, Inc.
     On May 10, 1949, she married Francis "Frenchy" Henry at St. Bede's Church at Kelly. They lived south of Centralia, Kansas, for three year and northeast of Corning for three years before they bought a farm south of Bancroft. They moved to Wetmore in 1989. In 1999, they celebrated their golden wedding anniversary.  Her husband, Frenchy, survives of the home.
     She was a member of St. James Catholic Church and the St. James Altar Society at the church in Wetmore. Dorothy was a devoted wife, mother, and grandmother. She will be missed dearly by her family and friends. She enjoyed all kinds of flowers, reading and most of all, spending time and visiting with her family and friends she loved so dearly.
     Survivors besides her husband, Francis "Frenchy" are two sons; Gary Henry of Seneca and Randy Henry of Goff; six daughters, Connie Gold of Hugoton, Kansas, Marilyn Showman of Sabetha, Kansas, Sharon Claycamp of Soldier, Kansas, Lori Ann Stallbaumer of Holton, Kansas, Caroline Todd of Havensville, Kansas, Eileen Love of Seneca, Kansas; a brother Lawrence Boeckman of Seneca; four sisters Augusta Hutfles and Frances Wichman both of Seneca and Mary Ann Schmitz and Arlene Schmitz both of Baileyville, Kansas; 19 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren.
     She was preceded in death by her parents; three brothers, Clarence Boeckman on May 1, 1926, Raymond Boeckman on February 2, 1973, and Alvin Boeckman on September 8, 1984; two sisters, Clara Segenhagen on August 30, 1972 and Rosalia "Sally" Deters on August 8, 1992.
     The mass of Christian burial will be 10 A.M. Saturday at St. Patrick's Church at Corning, Kansas. The burial will be in the church cemetery. The rosary will be prayed at the Lauer Funeral Home in Seneca on Thursday at 7 P.M. and on Friday at 2 P.M and at 7 P.M.
     Memorials may be given for St. Benedictine Sisters and sent in care of the family.