Theressa Alice Senkbeil
Born: April 5, 1935
Died: July 31, 2015
Married: Richard A. Hough, Jr.
Children: Kimberley Decker, Darrell Hough, Lisa Yakalis, Victoria Hough, Glenna Whittemore, Thomas Hough, Richard Hough, III
Theressa Alice Senkbeil Hough
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, August 6, 2015
Theressa A. Senkbeil Hough
Theressa Alice Senkbeil Hough, 80, of Easley, passed away on Friday, July 31, 2015.
Born April 5, 1935, in Atlanta, Georgia, she attended Ed S. Cook and Garden Hills Elementary Schools, and was a 1953 graduate of North Fulton High School, where she was a National Honor Society Merit Scholar, a member of the girl’s Varsity Basketball team, the swim team, the bowling team, Drama club, Monitor’s Club, GAA, Special Chorus, and Orchestra. She was also an avid hiker and spelunker.
She was the 1954 Georgia State Women’s Double’s Bowling Champion, and attended Oglethorpe University and Southern Technical Institute from 1953-1954.
She served in the U.S. Navy from 1955 to 1958 as an air traffic controller. She was a Brownie troop leader, a church organist/choir director for various churches from 1960 to 1980, and a dispatcher for Moriah Ambulance. From 1976 to 2001, she was the manager of Cash Processing for American Management Association.
She also served as a local pastor for Keene-Upper Jay United Methodist from 1982 to 2001, was an AEMT for Critical Care Tech, and was president of the Lake Placid Volunteer Ambulance Service.
She loved Bible study, knitting, crocheting, double deck pinochle, and teaching piano.
She is survived by her children: Kimberley Decker, Darrell Hough, Lisa Yakalis, Victoria Hough, Glenna Whittemore, Thomas Hough and Richard Hough III; her siblings: Barbara Heisley, Rita Burch, Penny Thompson, David Petrie and Sylvia Nye; 16 grandchildren; 22 great-grandchildren; and several step-grandchildren and step-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Richard A. Hough; her siblings: Mabel Wolfson and Richard Senkbeil; her parents: Albert Julius Senkbeil and Phyllis Thomas Senkbeil Petrie; and her great-grandson, Torin Robert Colby.
The memorial service will be held at 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug 29 at the Moriah firehouse.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Lake Placid Volunteer Ambulance.