From the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Sunday, December 30, 2007:
FORT WORTH - Dudley Evans Henckels, 63, died peacefully on Thursday, Dec. 27, 2007, at a local care facility due to a stroke following surgery.
Memorial service: Service for friends at 1:30 p.m. Monday in Greenwood Chapel following a private graveside service.
Memorials: In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Amon Carter Museum.
Dudley was a graduate of Hill School where he was president of the Pipe Club, and Washington and Lee University where he was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity. In his youth he was a member of the Texas Boys Choir and a champion tennis player.
A fifth-generation Fort Worthian, his great-grandfather, John Zinn, was the second justice of the peace in town and a founder of First Presbyterian Church. Another great-grandfather, John F. "Spade" Evans, was co-founder of the Spade Ranch and a founder of the Panhandle Cattlemen's Association. His father, Jack Henckels, set four world speed records in hydroplane boat racing in the 1930s and 1940s and was chairman of Natatorium Industrial Laundry, Johnson Towel Supply and Texas Garment and Linen.
Retired from his bookkeeping service, Dudley was a master pool player and was much loved by all who knew him as a jovial curmudgeon.
Survivors: Mother, Ann Evans Henckels; brother, Kirk Henckels; and cousins, Cindy Evans Flowers, Bill Taylor Evans and Jimmy Evans.
FORT WORTH - Dudley Evans Henckels, 63, died peacefully on Thursday, Dec. 27, 2007, at a local care facility due to a stroke following surgery.
Memorial service: Service for friends at 1:30 p.m. Monday in Greenwood Chapel following a private graveside service.
Memorials: In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Amon Carter Museum.
Dudley was a graduate of Hill School where he was president of the Pipe Club, and Washington and Lee University where he was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity. In his youth he was a member of the Texas Boys Choir and a champion tennis player.
A fifth-generation Fort Worthian, his great-grandfather, John Zinn, was the second justice of the peace in town and a founder of First Presbyterian Church. Another great-grandfather, John F. "Spade" Evans, was co-founder of the Spade Ranch and a founder of the Panhandle Cattlemen's Association. His father, Jack Henckels, set four world speed records in hydroplane boat racing in the 1930s and 1940s and was chairman of Natatorium Industrial Laundry, Johnson Towel Supply and Texas Garment and Linen.
Retired from his bookkeeping service, Dudley was a master pool player and was much loved by all who knew him as a jovial curmudgeon.
Survivors: Mother, Ann Evans Henckels; brother, Kirk Henckels; and cousins, Cindy Evans Flowers, Bill Taylor Evans and Jimmy Evans.
From the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Sunday, December 30, 2007:
FORT WORTH - Dudley Evans Henckels, 63, died peacefully on Thursday, Dec. 27, 2007, at a local care facility due to a stroke following surgery.
Memorial service: Service for friends at 1:30 p.m. Monday in Greenwood Chapel following a private graveside service.
Memorials: In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Amon Carter Museum.
Dudley was a graduate of Hill School where he was president of the Pipe Club, and Washington and Lee University where he was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity. In his youth he was a member of the Texas Boys Choir and a champion tennis player.
A fifth-generation Fort Worthian, his great-grandfather, John Zinn, was the second justice of the peace in town and a founder of First Presbyterian Church. Another great-grandfather, John F. "Spade" Evans, was co-founder of the Spade Ranch and a founder of the Panhandle Cattlemen's Association. His father, Jack Henckels, set four world speed records in hydroplane boat racing in the 1930s and 1940s and was chairman of Natatorium Industrial Laundry, Johnson Towel Supply and Texas Garment and Linen.
Retired from his bookkeeping service, Dudley was a master pool player and was much loved by all who knew him as a jovial curmudgeon.
Survivors: Mother, Ann Evans Henckels; brother, Kirk Henckels; and cousins, Cindy Evans Flowers, Bill Taylor Evans and Jimmy Evans.
FORT WORTH - Dudley Evans Henckels, 63, died peacefully on Thursday, Dec. 27, 2007, at a local care facility due to a stroke following surgery.
Memorial service: Service for friends at 1:30 p.m. Monday in Greenwood Chapel following a private graveside service.
Memorials: In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Amon Carter Museum.
Dudley was a graduate of Hill School where he was president of the Pipe Club, and Washington and Lee University where he was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity. In his youth he was a member of the Texas Boys Choir and a champion tennis player.
A fifth-generation Fort Worthian, his great-grandfather, John Zinn, was the second justice of the peace in town and a founder of First Presbyterian Church. Another great-grandfather, John F. "Spade" Evans, was co-founder of the Spade Ranch and a founder of the Panhandle Cattlemen's Association. His father, Jack Henckels, set four world speed records in hydroplane boat racing in the 1930s and 1940s and was chairman of Natatorium Industrial Laundry, Johnson Towel Supply and Texas Garment and Linen.
Retired from his bookkeeping service, Dudley was a master pool player and was much loved by all who knew him as a jovial curmudgeon.
Survivors: Mother, Ann Evans Henckels; brother, Kirk Henckels; and cousins, Cindy Evans Flowers, Bill Taylor Evans and Jimmy Evans.
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