Lenora May (Boyd) Hensley

Lenora May Hensley, 89, of Hillsboro, Illinois, passed away on Monday, October 7, 2024 at 3:47 a.m. at Montgomery Nursing and Rehab in Taylor Springs, Illinois. Cremation rites for Lenora are being accorded and a Celebration of Life will be held at a later date. Bass Patton Dean Funeral Home in Hillsboro, Illinois is in charge of arrangements. 

Mrs. Hensley was born on May 17, 1935 in Sorento, Illinois to the late Louis and Lola (Jarman) Boyd. She a 1953 graduate of Greenville High School and pursued her career as a secretary at Utlaut Hospital in Greenville, Illinois during the 1970’s. She married Urban Neal Hensley on June 2, 1977 in Iowa. She loved sewing and making ceramic dolls; she practiced her craft well into retirement. Throughout her lifetime, she had resided in Greenville, Illinois and Haines City, Florida for over 30 years.

She is survived by her daughter Kathy (husband, Harold) Reynolds of Hillsboro, Illinois; daughter-in-law, Cindy Jahnssen; granddaughter, Kacey (husband, Andy) Robertson of Peterson, West Virginia; great grandchildren, Rhydian and Raelyn; step grandchildren Bill (wife, Cathy) Reynolds of Shakopee, Minnesota, Bob (wife, Melissa) Reynolds of Hillsboro, Illinois, and Belinda (husband, Dave) Joyce of Coffeen, Illinois; sisters, Leola Wall of Sorento, Illinois and Lela Collins of New York.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her first husband, Fritz Jahnssen, which ended in divorce and her second husband, Neal Hensley, who died in 1992, both had resided in Greenville, Illinois. Her son Fritz Jahnssen Jr., who passed in 2020, her brother Louis of Iowa, younger sister Louise, who died in childhood, and sister Lois (husband, Delmar) Ruppert of Michigan.

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