HENSON, Vernie A., age, 95, of Trenton, February 16, 2019. Loved and missed by her extended family. Vernie was a loving and generous person. She could not have children, but she always loved them so much and really enjoyed it when they would bring them to the nursing home. She would always keep a very clean home. She would paint every year in what she would call the little cracker box. Vernie lived in Lincoln Park back when they were starting to close the alleys, probably the late 1950's, her husband came home from work one day and saw a fence was up and asked her who she hired to do it and she replied you are looking at her. She did not work outside the home, but she worked really hard around the home. Later when she and her husband retired, Vernie had her new home built the way she wanted it. Vernie could do anything, they said she would have been a nurse, she took care of her mother alot. One day Vernie went to the doctor and the nurse was a new to the job and Vernie showed her how to take blood. Vernie was a Christian woman and enjoyed going to church services. She was preceded in death by her husband William A. English, her parents, John and Sarah Mollett, her sister Mae, and her brothers John, Ben, Jim, Brown, Ed, Lice, and Bill.
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Our Aunt Vernae( "Auntie")was the oldest of six living generations in our family. She never had children of her own, but treated us as if we were her own. She was a very strong woman. She kept herself busy with many things through the years, whether it was at her public jobs in her younger years or private house and homemaking in the latter years. She did everything from gardening, painting, building fences and cooking up feasts! She took pride in serving home, family and community! Her husband arrived home from work one day to see a newly built fence near the alley way. When he asked who she had hired she told him, "You're looking at her!" This was the same husband that met Henry Ford during his beginning years at Ford Motor Company. Oh, what a generation, what a history what memories!! You will be greatly missed, Auntie!! Greg & Kim Rosson
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