For Nancy Lester Hendrix was home, students were family
Chip Taulbee
Issue date: 3/19/04 Section: News
"She was a nature person," Morris Lester said. "She wanted to be outside more than inside. She just loved to get outside and look at rocks and trees."
So on weekends when Mrs. Lester and her husband didn't have to work, they would explore Arkansas. "We'd just get in my Dodge truck, and just drive around and look at stuff," he said.
Her favorite place to visit was White Rock, near Fayetteville, where she and her husband had a cabin. Morris Lester said, "She'd walk down the road, look at flowers, look at birds."
Despite her gentle disposition, one of Mrs. Lester's favorite outdoor activities was driving four wheelers. She also drove motorcycles, drove tractors and could operate a chainsaw, Waller bragged. "She was really something," her sister said.
Mrs. Lester was preceded in death by her father, Thomas Willie Henley; and by two sons, William Ronald Merritt and Paul Lee Merritt.
In addition to her husband and her sister, she is survived by her mother, Lora Henley of Springdale; her son Tommy Merritt and wife Joyce of Quitman; three other sisters: Addie Danehower of Kansas, Okla., Valarie Lauder of Mt. Pleasant, S.C., and Wanda Bales of Florissant, Colo.; grandsons, Ronnie and Daniel Merrit of Quitman; eight nephews and one niece.
Funeral services were held March 8 at Griffin Leggett chapel in Conway. Interment was at Vilonia Cemetery.
So on weekends when Mrs. Lester and her husband didn't have to work, they would explore Arkansas. "We'd just get in my Dodge truck, and just drive around and look at stuff," he said.
Her favorite place to visit was White Rock, near Fayetteville, where she and her husband had a cabin. Morris Lester said, "She'd walk down the road, look at flowers, look at birds."
Despite her gentle disposition, one of Mrs. Lester's favorite outdoor activities was driving four wheelers. She also drove motorcycles, drove tractors and could operate a chainsaw, Waller bragged. "She was really something," her sister said.
Mrs. Lester was preceded in death by her father, Thomas Willie Henley; and by two sons, William Ronald Merritt and Paul Lee Merritt.
In addition to her husband and her sister, she is survived by her mother, Lora Henley of Springdale; her son Tommy Merritt and wife Joyce of Quitman; three other sisters: Addie Danehower of Kansas, Okla., Valarie Lauder of Mt. Pleasant, S.C., and Wanda Bales of Florissant, Colo.; grandsons, Ronnie and Daniel Merrit of Quitman; eight nephews and one niece.
Funeral services were held March 8 at Griffin Leggett chapel in Conway. Interment was at Vilonia Cemetery.
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