Paula Rene Hensley, born Nov. 13, 1962, in Chanute, died Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011, at her home in Coffeyville, Paula attended schools in Humboldt and Coffeyville. She met and fell in love with Rick in 1981; the couple married on Sept. 11, 1982. Paula and Rick opened Service Office & Supply in Coffeyville in 1987 and together expanded the business through the years.

Paula is preceded in death by her mother and father, Donna and Ed Sherwood, and one brother, Randy.

Paula is survived by her husband of 28 years, Rick; as wellas her daughter Rene and husband, Shane Stanley, her son Trevor, and daughters Mikinzie and Sydney, all of Coffeyville; siblings Dennis Sherwood and his wife, Dorothy, Iola, sister-in-law Donna Sherwood, Wichita, Debra Torres and her husband, Roy, of Rogers, Ark., Terry Savala and her husband, Cliff, Dearing, Jim Sherwood, Coffeyville, and Vickie Bayles and her husband, Bob, Rogers, Ark.

Funeral will be at First Southern Baptist Church in Coffeyville today, Feb. 1, at 2 p.m.

David W. Barnes Funeral Home in Coffeyville in charge of arrangements.

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