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Eula Sipe Hensley, 94, formerly of 237 Bloomer Springs Road, McGaheysville, passed away Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009, at Life Care Center in New Market.
Mrs. Hensley was born Feb. 14, 1914, at Yancey near Elkton, and was the daughter of the late William F. and Fannie C. Burriss Sipe. She was also preceded in death by three sisters, Clara Sipe Shifflett, Bessie Sipe James and Lottie Sipe Hensley, four brothers, Robert, William M., Jesse and Dorsey Sipe, a granddaughter, Debra Hensley, and a daughter-in-law, Linda Jones Hensley.
She attended the St. Stephen Episcopal School at Berrytown near Elkton. She was a homemaker and was caregiver for her invalid mother, worked briefly at Casey Jones and also worked for 20 years at Virginia Egg Producers. During her lifetime she shared her joy of cooking with family and many friends. She particularly enjoyed taking her homemade coconut custard pies to the sick and shut-ins. She was a member of the Blue Ridge Independent Church, which was very important to her.
On Aug. 28, 1931, she married her husband of 61 years, Murphy Vernon Hensley, who passed away on July 17, 1992. She is survived by two sons, Murphy F. Hensley of Round Hill, Va., Larry Hensley and wife, Leotta, of Stafford, Va.; a daughter, Janice Marie Spitzer and husband, Clay, of Timberville; three children reared in her home, a niece, Maxine Hedrick and husband, Junior; a great niece, Mary Jo Oddo Halstead and fianc
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