Phyllis Henry

KEY CENTER, Washington – Phyllis Henry, 93, of Key Center, Washington, passed away June 29, 2024.

A memorial will be held on July 24 between 2 and 4 p.m. at the Key Peninsula Civic Center. 

Phyllis was born on Feb 10, 1931 in Gladbrook. She married out of high school to Bill Glass and gave birth to three children (Domoni and the twins Amber and Vayne) within 2 years. 

The family moved to Ames in 1956 where she put herself through college and later took a job teaching English at Iowa State.    

After a divorce, Phyllis moved to Washington D.C. where she worked as a court reporter.  A couple of years later she started Commonwealth Reporting Company in Harrisburg Pennsylvania.  She married Bill Henry in 1981.  

She and Bill eventually moved to Iowa where they raised llamas on the family homestead.    While in Iowa, she started a shelter for abused women in Grundy County.  She also took religious studies and, later, became a lay pastor serving at the Green Mountain Church in Green Mountain.  Shortly after her husband died, she moved to Gig Harbor, Wahington to live with her daughter.  

In Washington, she volunteered with Angel Guild in Key Center, Washington.  She served on the Key Peninsula Community Council and was an active volunteer with the Mustard Seed Project. Phyllis also became a supporter of the Key Peninsula Community Services Food Bank and a regular attendee at the Key Peninsula Business Association meetings.  As a testament to her love of words, she was a long-term member of a Key Peninsula book club and a local writers’ group.  In recent years, Phyllis contributed columns to the Key Peninsula News and received several awards for her work.  

She is survived by her three children, Domoni, Amber, and Vayne Glass, three grandchildren, Justin Andrews, Alyssa Hendrix, and Kevin Glass, one great-grandson, Jason Andrews, a brother, Cecil Wrage, and numerous nieces and nephews.  

Phyllis would have preferred that any remembrances be sent to one of her favorite charities (theFood Bank, the Mustard Seed Project, the library, ACLU, Planned Parenthood, UNICEF), or to your favorite charity.