Wood & Torbert Families

Irene Hendry

b. 15 March 1899, d. 1 September 1985

Irene Hendry was born on 15 March 1899 in Alabama.
She married Henry Thomas Rutland, son of John Blake Rutland and Eugenia Agnes Askew, on 20 June 1919 in Fulton County, Georgia, by license issued the same day, with A. A. Owen officiating.
Henry Thomas Rutland and Irene Hendry appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Decatur, DeKalb County, Georgia, at 1504 Oakview Road. Other members of the household included Henry Thomas Rutland Jr. Also in the household were children Frances E. (age 9), Irene F. (6) and Mary E. (4), as well as one elderly female boarder.
Irene Hendry appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1940 in Decatur, DeKalb County, Georgia, at 214 Evans Drive. Other members of the household included Henry Thomas Rutland Jr. Also in the household were children Frances (age 19), Irene (16) and Elizabeth (14), and Irene's sister Mary Echols (45). Husband Henry was enumerated in Auburn, Alabama, in the household of his brother James.
She was employed as a seamstress in a sewing room (likely a WPA project), according to the 1940 census.
Irene Hendry became a widow at the 19 November 1971 death of her husband Henry Thomas Rutland.
Irene Hendry died on 1 September 1985 at age 86 in DeKalb County, Georgia.
She was interred at Decatur Cemetery, Decatur, DeKalb County, Georgia.