d/o Wilda Laree (Henderson) (Miller) Davis and Austin Wallace (Dutch) Henderson; w/o Glen Sanders, div.
During the Great Depression, her parents lost their farm and everything they owned in Artesia, so they migrated to California in a Model-A Ford in 1935. Lou's earliest memories were of the ranch on Cottonwood Road in Bakersfield, where her dad was the foreman.
In 1941, Dutch went to work on a ranch in Weldon, and they moved to the Hillside Ranch in Southlake. She spent her early school years in Bakersfield and later attended school at Kernville High School, Kern Valley High School and then East High in Bakersfield.
She married Glen Sanders on Oct. 30, 1954, at the Weldon Methodist Church, and they had four children, Diane, Vernon, Austin and Aaron. In 1962 the family moved to New Mexico, and in 1966 they moved to Arkansas. In 1970 they moved back to California and the Kern River Valley.
Lou started working at Kern Valley Hospital in 1971 as a nurse's aide and then a respiratory tech. When Lou and Glen divorced in 1977, she went to college to study nursing. She was an excellent student, going to school full time, working full time, and raising her youngest child.
In 1984, at the age of 50, she graduated with her nursing degree. Lou worked at Kern Valley Hospital and then spent several years as a traveling nurse in South Carolina, Delaware and the Bay Area. She retired from nursing at Kern Valley at the age of 69.
One of the highlights of her nursing career was a medical mission trip to Nepal. The team she accompanied set up a mobile hospital and treated the Nepalese people doing surgeries, delivering babies, and treating all kinds of diseases for several weeks.
In 1998 Lou purchased 10 acres of property near West Meadow in the high country, and in 1999 she hired Bruce Wagner to build a cabin where she would spend many summers inviting friends and family to enjoy her little piece of heaven. She left this family treasure to her kids and grandkids as a heritage and a connection to her childhood memories of spending summers at cow camps near Smith Meadow before there were roads in the area.
One of the great joys of Lou's later life has been attending Golden Girls lunches and events. The Golden Girls are a group of seasoned ladies who lived in the KRV before the dam was built. They would meet once a month for lunch and visit and talk about the "old days." She hosted the ladies many times for a day at her high country cabin.
Lou was a very faithful, diligent and hard-working woman. She became a member of the Foursquare Church in Wofford Heights in 1970 and served and worshipped there for more than 40 years. She was blessed to have many friends of 70+ years; Margie Powers, Sis Statts, Pauline (Rhoads) Stewart and Patsy Malone, to name a few.
In October of 2011, Lou became a member of the Daughters of American Revolution with the help of Donna (Spradlin) Bundy, who helped her with months of research identifying her ancestors who were patriots before the American Revolution. She was proud of her roots in this nation's founding and spent much time researching her family tree.
She was preceded in death by her parents, brother Howard, brother Gerald and son Austin. She is survived by a sister Phyllis, three children, grandchildren; a stepsister and stepbrother Kathleen and Dale.
Interment at the Old Cemetery.
Kern Valley Sun, Dec 22, 2020
During the Great Depression, her parents lost their farm and everything they owned in Artesia, so they migrated to California in a Model-A Ford in 1935. Lou's earliest memories were of the ranch on Cottonwood Road in Bakersfield, where her dad was the foreman.
In 1941, Dutch went to work on a ranch in Weldon, and they moved to the Hillside Ranch in Southlake. She spent her early school years in Bakersfield and later attended school at Kernville High School, Kern Valley High School and then East High in Bakersfield.
She married Glen Sanders on Oct. 30, 1954, at the Weldon Methodist Church, and they had four children, Diane, Vernon, Austin and Aaron. In 1962 the family moved to New Mexico, and in 1966 they moved to Arkansas. In 1970 they moved back to California and the Kern River Valley.
Lou started working at Kern Valley Hospital in 1971 as a nurse's aide and then a respiratory tech. When Lou and Glen divorced in 1977, she went to college to study nursing. She was an excellent student, going to school full time, working full time, and raising her youngest child.
In 1984, at the age of 50, she graduated with her nursing degree. Lou worked at Kern Valley Hospital and then spent several years as a traveling nurse in South Carolina, Delaware and the Bay Area. She retired from nursing at Kern Valley at the age of 69.
One of the highlights of her nursing career was a medical mission trip to Nepal. The team she accompanied set up a mobile hospital and treated the Nepalese people doing surgeries, delivering babies, and treating all kinds of diseases for several weeks.
In 1998 Lou purchased 10 acres of property near West Meadow in the high country, and in 1999 she hired Bruce Wagner to build a cabin where she would spend many summers inviting friends and family to enjoy her little piece of heaven. She left this family treasure to her kids and grandkids as a heritage and a connection to her childhood memories of spending summers at cow camps near Smith Meadow before there were roads in the area.
One of the great joys of Lou's later life has been attending Golden Girls lunches and events. The Golden Girls are a group of seasoned ladies who lived in the KRV before the dam was built. They would meet once a month for lunch and visit and talk about the "old days." She hosted the ladies many times for a day at her high country cabin.
Lou was a very faithful, diligent and hard-working woman. She became a member of the Foursquare Church in Wofford Heights in 1970 and served and worshipped there for more than 40 years. She was blessed to have many friends of 70+ years; Margie Powers, Sis Statts, Pauline (Rhoads) Stewart and Patsy Malone, to name a few.
In October of 2011, Lou became a member of the Daughters of American Revolution with the help of Donna (Spradlin) Bundy, who helped her with months of research identifying her ancestors who were patriots before the American Revolution. She was proud of her roots in this nation's founding and spent much time researching her family tree.
She was preceded in death by her parents, brother Howard, brother Gerald and son Austin. She is survived by a sister Phyllis, three children, grandchildren; a stepsister and stepbrother Kathleen and Dale.
Interment at the Old Cemetery.
Kern Valley Sun, Dec 22, 2020
d/o Wilda Laree (Henderson) (Miller) Davis and Austin Wallace (Dutch) Henderson; w/o Glen Sanders, div.
During the Great Depression, her parents lost their farm and everything they owned in Artesia, so they migrated to California in a Model-A Ford in 1935. Lou's earliest memories were of the ranch on Cottonwood Road in Bakersfield, where her dad was the foreman.
In 1941, Dutch went to work on a ranch in Weldon, and they moved to the Hillside Ranch in Southlake. She spent her early school years in Bakersfield and later attended school at Kernville High School, Kern Valley High School and then East High in Bakersfield.
She married Glen Sanders on Oct. 30, 1954, at the Weldon Methodist Church, and they had four children, Diane, Vernon, Austin and Aaron. In 1962 the family moved to New Mexico, and in 1966 they moved to Arkansas. In 1970 they moved back to California and the Kern River Valley.
Lou started working at Kern Valley Hospital in 1971 as a nurse's aide and then a respiratory tech. When Lou and Glen divorced in 1977, she went to college to study nursing. She was an excellent student, going to school full time, working full time, and raising her youngest child.
In 1984, at the age of 50, she graduated with her nursing degree. Lou worked at Kern Valley Hospital and then spent several years as a traveling nurse in South Carolina, Delaware and the Bay Area. She retired from nursing at Kern Valley at the age of 69.
One of the highlights of her nursing career was a medical mission trip to Nepal. The team she accompanied set up a mobile hospital and treated the Nepalese people doing surgeries, delivering babies, and treating all kinds of diseases for several weeks.
In 1998 Lou purchased 10 acres of property near West Meadow in the high country, and in 1999 she hired Bruce Wagner to build a cabin where she would spend many summers inviting friends and family to enjoy her little piece of heaven. She left this family treasure to her kids and grandkids as a heritage and a connection to her childhood memories of spending summers at cow camps near Smith Meadow before there were roads in the area.
One of the great joys of Lou's later life has been attending Golden Girls lunches and events. The Golden Girls are a group of seasoned ladies who lived in the KRV before the dam was built. They would meet once a month for lunch and visit and talk about the "old days." She hosted the ladies many times for a day at her high country cabin.
Lou was a very faithful, diligent and hard-working woman. She became a member of the Foursquare Church in Wofford Heights in 1970 and served and worshipped there for more than 40 years. She was blessed to have many friends of 70+ years; Margie Powers, Sis Statts, Pauline (Rhoads) Stewart and Patsy Malone, to name a few.
In October of 2011, Lou became a member of the Daughters of American Revolution with the help of Donna (Spradlin) Bundy, who helped her with months of research identifying her ancestors who were patriots before the American Revolution. She was proud of her roots in this nation's founding and spent much time researching her family tree.
She was preceded in death by her parents, brother Howard, brother Gerald and son Austin. She is survived by a sister Phyllis, three children, grandchildren; a stepsister and stepbrother Kathleen and Dale.
Interment at the Old Cemetery.
Kern Valley Sun, Dec 22, 2020
During the Great Depression, her parents lost their farm and everything they owned in Artesia, so they migrated to California in a Model-A Ford in 1935. Lou's earliest memories were of the ranch on Cottonwood Road in Bakersfield, where her dad was the foreman.
In 1941, Dutch went to work on a ranch in Weldon, and they moved to the Hillside Ranch in Southlake. She spent her early school years in Bakersfield and later attended school at Kernville High School, Kern Valley High School and then East High in Bakersfield.
She married Glen Sanders on Oct. 30, 1954, at the Weldon Methodist Church, and they had four children, Diane, Vernon, Austin and Aaron. In 1962 the family moved to New Mexico, and in 1966 they moved to Arkansas. In 1970 they moved back to California and the Kern River Valley.
Lou started working at Kern Valley Hospital in 1971 as a nurse's aide and then a respiratory tech. When Lou and Glen divorced in 1977, she went to college to study nursing. She was an excellent student, going to school full time, working full time, and raising her youngest child.
In 1984, at the age of 50, she graduated with her nursing degree. Lou worked at Kern Valley Hospital and then spent several years as a traveling nurse in South Carolina, Delaware and the Bay Area. She retired from nursing at Kern Valley at the age of 69.
One of the highlights of her nursing career was a medical mission trip to Nepal. The team she accompanied set up a mobile hospital and treated the Nepalese people doing surgeries, delivering babies, and treating all kinds of diseases for several weeks.
In 1998 Lou purchased 10 acres of property near West Meadow in the high country, and in 1999 she hired Bruce Wagner to build a cabin where she would spend many summers inviting friends and family to enjoy her little piece of heaven. She left this family treasure to her kids and grandkids as a heritage and a connection to her childhood memories of spending summers at cow camps near Smith Meadow before there were roads in the area.
One of the great joys of Lou's later life has been attending Golden Girls lunches and events. The Golden Girls are a group of seasoned ladies who lived in the KRV before the dam was built. They would meet once a month for lunch and visit and talk about the "old days." She hosted the ladies many times for a day at her high country cabin.
Lou was a very faithful, diligent and hard-working woman. She became a member of the Foursquare Church in Wofford Heights in 1970 and served and worshipped there for more than 40 years. She was blessed to have many friends of 70+ years; Margie Powers, Sis Statts, Pauline (Rhoads) Stewart and Patsy Malone, to name a few.
In October of 2011, Lou became a member of the Daughters of American Revolution with the help of Donna (Spradlin) Bundy, who helped her with months of research identifying her ancestors who were patriots before the American Revolution. She was proud of her roots in this nation's founding and spent much time researching her family tree.
She was preceded in death by her parents, brother Howard, brother Gerald and son Austin. She is survived by a sister Phyllis, three children, grandchildren; a stepsister and stepbrother Kathleen and Dale.
Interment at the Old Cemetery.
Kern Valley Sun, Dec 22, 2020
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