Mrs. Henderson was born in 1940. Her father was a farmer and her mother a schoolteacher. Mrs. Henderson was the first of 11 siblings. She was 17-years-old when her youngest sister, Diana, was born. Some days after that, their mother deceased. This meant that Mrs. Henderson became the surrogate mother for her siblings, especially for the twins John and Thomas, who were one year old, and for the new-born Diana. At age twenty, Mrs. Henderson married Robert, who was a farm employee. They decided to stay at the farm with Mrs. Henderson’s father and siblings. The couple had five children. Two children died at the age of 11 and 9, when they drowned in a frozen lake in winter. Robert died at 70 after a heart attack. Their son, Michael, took over the farm. Mrs. Henderson had been living in the same house for all her life. In recent years and until she moved to the nursing home, she was living with her sister Diana, their Bernese mountain dog Fudge, and Mrs. Henderson’s son Michael, his wife, and their three children.