Shirley Ann (Foster) Henson-Long

Funeral Services for Shirley Ann (Foster) Henson-Long will be held on Monday, August 26th, 2019 at 10:00 AM at Reed-Culver Chapel with Pastor Jim Carey officiating. The family will have a visitation on Sunday, August 25th, 2019 beginning at 1:00 PM until 5:00 PM at Reed-Culver Chapel. She will be laid to rest at Keener Cemetery in Lost City, OK. Online condolences for the family may be left at www.reedculver.com.

Pallbearers for Shirley include Davy Marsh, Justin Henson, Robert Henson, Kyler Damron, Josh Henson, Charles Henson, and Robert W. Henson. Honorary pallbearers include Michael Henson, Kane Damron, Rian Dotson and Easton Henson.

Shirley Ann (Foster) Henson-Long was born on Monday, June 1st, 1942 in Murphy, OK, the daughter of Leonard and Susie (Keener) Foster. She was raised with three brothers and one sister, Donald, Curtis, Jerry, and Mary. She would date and marry Cecil Henson on December 19, 1960. Together they would raise a family of one son and two daughters, Ronald, Rhonda and Julie. Her husband was ordained a Deacon of Vann Lake Baptist Church and Shirley stood beside him every step of the way. Cecil passed in 1991. Shirley then married Earl Long in 2016, and Earl passed from this life in 2018. Shirley worked as a Teachers Assistant, a job she dearly loved for over 39 years. When she wasn’t working, she was dedicated to the Vann Lake Baptist Church, filling in any capacity they had need of. She loved to be outdoors, hunting crawdads, fishing, gardening, traveling, road trips and gospel singing. At home she kept company with her feline companion Timmy. The best part of any day was seeing her grand and great grandchildren, she was their biggest fan! She loved getting her family together to share a holiday or a weekend. She passed from this life on Sunday, August 18th, 2019 in Broken Arrow at the age of 77. She will be missed.

She is preceded in death by mother, father, husband Cecil and Earl, two brothers, Donald and Curtis, and one sister-in-law, Ruby Foster.

Those left to cherish her memory include her children, Ronald Henson of Tulsa, Rhonda Marsh and husband David of Newalla, OK, and Julie Henson of Coweta, OK. She leaves one brother, Jerry Foster and wife Catherine of Claremore and one sister, Mary Warren of Tulsa, OK. She lives on in her nine grandchildren, David Marsh, Brandy Marsh-Damron, Trinity Kirkpatrick, Cheyanne Busby, Rian Dotson, Josh Henson, Justin Henson, Robert Henson, and Chelsie Simmons. She also leaves ten great grandchildren, Kyler Damron, Kane Damron, Jackson Simmons, Gage Simmons, Colton Simmons, Easton Henson, Gwen Henson, Maddi Henson, Jaxon Small and soon- to – be-born, Emersyn Kirkpatrick, as well as many nieces, nephews, cousins and a host of friends and loved ones.