Pamela Jeanne Hensley

Pamela Jeanne Hensley, our precious mommy left us on Monday, September 8, 2025, at the Pineville Community Health Center in Pineville, Kentucky. Pam was born in Pineville, Kentucky on July 13, 1947, to the late William Hubert Widner and Helen Lee Widner. She attended and graduated from the “old” Bell County High School where she played the clarinet in the band and was a majorette. Later in life she would attend Southeast and achieve something she worked so hard for, her college degree. Mom loved college and said she would be a professional student if she could because she loved learning and just could not ever learn enough.

At an early age she learned what loss and heartache was when she lost her first son, Thomas Jeffrey Siler, to Leukemia at the age of 3 years old. She spent years telling me and my brother how amazing he was and longed to see him again. On Monday that wish was finally granted.

On November 22, 1969, at a little chapel in Tazewell, Tennessee, she married our Daddy William Fox Hensley and was married for 53 years before his passing.

Mom was involved in everything we did from being a Girl Scout Leader to taxi driver hauling us to baseball, basketball, and cheerleading practice. While she worked several jobs, as a secretary at the family owned Widner & Sons construction, Family Resource Center in the Bell County School System, and her last job as the Lunchroom Manager at Yellow Creek School.

She was extremely strict but as I grew older and became a mother myself, I completely understood her strictness was from a place of fearing the loss of another child. Our mother was an amazing, loving and caring woman. She loved fiercely and with all her heart. She loved her children, grandchildren and her trips to the beach and just being with her family which meant the world to her. Most of all she loved God, and he has always been the guiding light in her life and because of her faithful belief I take comfort in knowing she is rejoicing in Heaven with our grandparents, our brother, and our Daddy.

In addition to her parents, she is preceded in death by her husband, William Fox Hensley; brother, William Glenn Widner; mother-in-law, Dora Hensley Mills; brother-in-law, Larry Hensley; sister-in-law, Nancy Widner; and nephew, Gary Blanton.

Left to miss and always love her are her daughter, Amy Michelle Brumbach; son, William Travis Hensley; daughter-in-law, Delilah Hensley; grand-babies, William Jacob (Jake) Bruner, Kaelyn Paige Marsee and husband, Brett, Travis Chase Hensley, and Morgan Grace Hensley; great-grand babies, Josie Kai Hensley, Dylan Lee Marsee, and Delilah Jewel (DJ) Marsee; brother, Steve Widner; sisters-in-law, Carolyn Widner and Betty Blanton; nieces, Stephanie Widner Napier and husband, Kevin, Rachel Widner Carr, Rae Widner, and Carla Jones and husband, Boyd; nephews, Michael Widner and wife, Tammy, John Widner, and Mark Blanton; and many other family members and friends.

A celebration of life and balloon release will be held at 12:00 PM on Saturday, September 13, 2025, at the Harrogate City Park in Harrogate, Tennessee. In lieu of flowers a Gofundme has been set up to help with funeral expenses.

Arnett & Steele Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Pineville is honored to serve the Hensley Family, light a candle of remembrance and sign the guest register at www.arnettsteele.com.