Linda Lee Henson

A graveside service will take place at 2:30 p.m. on Monday, December 14 at Mt. Horeb Cemetery in Sturgeon.

Linda was born July 19, 1946 in Denison, Iowa to Wilbur “Flip” Andrew Andresen and Aleda Ruth Johnson. She was married to Howard Robert Henson on June 26, 1976 in Columbia. She started her education in 1951 in Denison. She continued her education in Renick, and when the family moved to Sturgeon, where she received her high school diploma in 1964. After the family moved to Columbia in 1965, she never left until she moved to Heritage Hall in 2018. In 1968 she received her Licensed Practical Nurse certificate, and later in 1990 received her Associate in Science in Nursing in May 1990 from Columbia College, Columbia.

She enjoyed playing high school basketball in Sturgeon. During her Junior and/or Senior High School years she worked at the Boone County Nursing Home in Prathersville. She worked as an LPN at Boone Hospital until she went to work at the Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans’ Hospital in 1972 until she retired in 2003. While working at the VA she received her RN Degree.

She didn’t like sewing clothes but she enjoyed and excelled in needle work, embroidery, knitting, crocheting and quilting baby blankets for fellow coworkers at the VA as gifts. There are really no words to express how beautiful her needle work was. She enjoyed taking cruises with friends and also taking her mother and sister with her. She also enjoyed taking her mother on a trip to Hawaii.

She is preceded in death by her parents and husband. Linda is survived by her sisters: Kathy Jean Andresen and Deborah Ann Strodtman of Columbia; niece, Aleda Irene Jenkins of Jacksonville, Florida; nephew, Richard Darnell Harrison of Columbia; four grand nephews; two grandnieces; two great grand nephews; and one great grandniece.