Individual Details

Death

Ridgeland

Anna Mae Hughes Henrion passed away on Thursday, January 9, 2014 at Hospice Ministries in Ridgeland. Mrs. Henrion was born in D'Lo, Mississippi on October 4, 1917 to parents Robert Clyde and Anna Fraiser Hughes. She lived in Jackson from the early 1940s to the late 1950s. She and her husband Bob were in the restaurant business, and both were avid bowlers. They moved from Jackson to Austin, Texas, then Oklahoma City, and then to California where they were associated with School Pictures. They both retired there. After Bob's death Mrs. Henrion returned to Jackson in 1986.

She was an active member of Central Presbyterian Church and later Briarwood Presbyterian Church until 2006 when she experienced the onset of Alzheimer's. She had also been diagnosed with diabetes in the early 1990s. Mrs. Henrion was also active in Eastern Star.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, sister Bobbie Allen, brother Buddie Hughes, two nieces and a nephew. She is survived by sisters Helen Laird of Jackson, Lula Bell Gadmer and Jean Miesse of Clinton, and Willie Lou (Bill) Smith of Florence, several nieces and nephews, as well as several great nieces and nephews. She and Bob had no children, but she loved everyone else's and treated them as her own.

Visitation will be from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm on Saturday, January 11, at Lakewood Funeral Home on Clinton Boulevard, with the service at 3:00 pm. Burial will follow in Lakewood Cemetery.

Published in Clarion Ledger on Jan. 11, 2014