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- District of Columbia, Marriage Records, 1810-1953
Name: Willard Ruth Henderson
Gender: Female
Age: 21
Birth Date: abt 1926
Marriage Date: 18 Apr 1947
Marriage Place: District of Columbia, USA
Spouse: Clyde Herbert Lentz
Film Number: 002319888
Jackson County, Missouri, Marriage Records, 1826-2014
Name: Ruth Henderson Lentz
Registration Date: 30 Apr 1957
Marriage Date: 10 May 1957
Marriage Place: Jackson, Missouri, USA
Spouse: Kenneth Carl Sanders
License Number: 1957I0037075
Ruth L. Henderson Sanders
BIRTH 19 Feb 1926
Temple, Cotton County, Oklahoma, USA
DEATH 7 Nov 2011 (aged 85)
Overland Park, Johnson County, Kansas, USA
BURIAL
Paola Cemetery
Paola, Miami County, Kansas, USA
MEMORIAL ID 83178916
Ruth L Sanders, 85, of Linn Valley, KS passed away Nov 7, 2011 at the Gables Assisted Living in Overland Park, KS.
Ruth was born on Feb 19, 1926 in Temple, OK to Willie Trenton and Laura Esther Murphy Henderson. She graduated from Tom Bean High School in Tom Bean, TX in 1943, and then earned 36 hours of college credit in nurses training in Sherman, TX. After nurses training she moved to Washington, DC and worked as a clerk typist in the Pentagon. Ruth was united in marriage to Clyde Herbert Lentz on Apr 18, 1947. He passed away on Mar 30, 1956. On May 10, 1957 Ruth married Kenneth Sanders in Raytown, MO.
She worked as a school bus driver in the 1960's, then in the 1970's she was employed as a telephone switch board operator for the Baptist Memorial Hospital in Kansas City, MO. Later Ruth was an independent sales associate for Avon and a clerk typist for several companies.
Ruth enjoyed playing cards and dominoes. She was a member of the Linn Valley Community Church and the Linn Valley Ladies Auxiliary where she was always willing to give a helping hand to others.
Ruth was preceded in death by her first husband, five sisters, and one brother.
She is survived by her husband Kenneth E of Linn Valley, KS; seven children, Philip Clyde Lentz and wife Patricia of Overland Park, KS, Carolyn Joan Zeller and husband Rod of Lexington, MO, Ronald Herbert Lentz and wife Sana of Shawnee, KS, Donna Ruth Ramirez and husband David of Lake Charles LA, Cynthia Lee Towsley and husband Stanley of Stover, MO, Christine Elaine Howell and husband Kevin of Austin, TX, Alice Diane Keys and husband Frank of Topeka, KS; one sister Betty Ann Seidlits of Horseshoe Bay, TX; 22 grandchildren; 23 great grandchildren; and 4 great great grandchildren.
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