This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JW.2ADE/8165 Message Board Post: Daily Independent newspaper Ridgecrest CA Kern County May 4, 2005 SHARON MARIE KOCH HENDEN 1942-2005 Sharon Marie Koch Henden passed away Thursday April 14, 2005 in Colorado Springs, Colo. following a lengthy illness. She was 62. Private services will be held in Lompoc at a later date. Mrs. Henden was born in Tiffin, Ohio on Sept. 9, 1942 and moved to Ridgecrest at the age of 5. She attened Burroughs High School where she met her high school sweetheart and future husband, Tom. They married in 1963 and moved to Lompoc in 1966. She was an active member of the Lompoc community, serving in both the Los Berros Elementary School and Cabrillo High School Parent-Teacher Associations. She also worked for many years in the Queen of Angels Catholic Church preschoool. She was an avid gardener. She loved working in her backyard garden, which she transformed into a little private paradise. She also enjoyed walking her dogs in the nearby La Purisima Mission State Historicl Park with her husband. Her family says this about her: "Sharon was a loving wife, a wonderful mother, a doting grandmother and a faithful friend. She touched the lives of all who knew her. She is greatly missed." Tom and the family would like to thank all of the friends and neighbors who have kept Sharon in their thoughs and prayers. Mrs. Henden is survived by her husband Thomas A. Henden, three daughters Kim Schneider of Lake Oswego, Ore., Alyce Camero of Oahu, Hawaii, and Rhonda Knight of Colorado Springs, Colo., sisters Jeannine and Jeraldine, brother James and 11 grandchildren. Media information provided by the family.