Louise Jenkins Sellars

Louise Jenkins Sellars passed away on February 8, 2015 in Austin, Texas at the age of 92. She was born on November 14, 1922 in Oakhurst, Texas. She was the daughter of John Thomas and Claytie Louisa Jenkins. Louise graduated from high school in Trinity, Texas and attended Sam Houston State University. She married Lt. Benjamin Sellars in Washington, D.C. on June 19, l950. With her marriage to Ben she became an Air Force wife, a position she filled with a lot of pride. She was a fulltime housewife except for a short time when the Sellars family was stationed in Germany. In an effort to stem the gold flow at that time military dependents were encouraged to take civil service positions and Louise became supervisor in the Non-Appropriated Fund Division of the U.S. Air Force Command in Europe.

Later, after Ben’s retirement from the military she became interested in genealogy and traced her ancestors back to seventeenth century Colonial Virginia. Because of this connection she became a member of the Colonial Dames of the Seventeenth Century (CDXVIIC). Through ancestors that followed she identified one who served in the American Revolution and one in the Texas Revolution. Through these ancestors she became a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) and the Daughters of the Texas Republic (DRT).

Louise was a past president of the John Champion Chapter of the CDXVIIC in Bellaire, Texas. She later transferred to the Embassy Chapter of the CDXVIIC in Austin and held several offices in that chapter. She also held offices in the John Everett Chapter of the DAR in Columbus, Texas and the William Barett Travis Chapter of the DRT in Austin, Texas.

Louise was a member of the United Methodist Church and held a strong belief in God, country and family. She enjoyed her participation in the House of Friends at Bethany United Methodist Church.

She was preceded in death by her husband Ben and survived by her daughter, Sandra Louise Fritz, a granddaughter and her husband, two great grandchildren, one sister and several nephews and nieces.

Interment will be private at the Central Texas State Veterans Cemetery at a date to be announced.

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations be made to the Alzheimer’s Society, Hospice Austin, or a charity of choice.

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