Donald Lee Henson, age 90, of Cassville, Missouri, passed away on January 15, 2025, at Mercy Hospital in Springfield. Mr. Henson, son of Orville and Rosa (Lyall) Henson, was born on August 22, 1934, in the Mineral Springs community in Barry County. He was a U.S. Army veteran. He worked for Schreiber Foods in Carthage for 40 years and in 1973 received an Industrial Education Certificate through Franklin Technical School for training in Industrial Control Circuit. Following his retirement, he also was a member of the Shell Knob Eagles Lodge and Lions Club, both in Shell Knob. Donald had a long life enjoying the outdoors hunting and fishing. He especially enjoyed hunting turkey and deer. He also found peace driving through the woods hunting morel mushrooms. For a time, he made knives from saw blades, deer antlers and other materials. He passed down a couple of them to his daughter and great grandson.
He married Anna Wooten on June 30, 1956, in Cassville; she passed away on January 8, 2023.
Additional survivors include his daughter, Kay Ryun, Nixa; granddaughter, Jessica Morrow and her husband Derek, also of Nixa; great-grandson, Braxton; great-granddaughter, Maci; and three sisters, Dollie Sprenger, of Ozark, Irene Bates, of Shell Knob, and Darlene Wierman and her husband Richard, of Cassville.
In addition to his wife and his parents, he was preceded in death by three brothers, J.D. Henson, Bob Henson, and Bill Henson, and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, January 25th at the White Funeral Home & Crematory in Cassville. The family will receive friends from 11:00 a.m. until service time. Burial will be at Maplewood Cemetery in Exeter.
Arrangements are under the direction of White Funeral Home & Crematory, Cassville, Missouri.
