Theresa L Whalen's Obituary
Theresa Lenczewski Whalen, seventy-six, of Houston, Texas, passed away peacefully on June 7, 2023, after a long illness.
The funeral service will be held at 2:00 in the afternoon on June 24, 2023, at the South Park Funeral Home in Pearland, Texas. Pastor Jon Salminen of Epiphany Lutheran Church will be officiating. Burial of ashes will follow the funeral.
Theresa was born in Houston, Texas, on May 30, 1947. She graduated from Stephen F. Austin High School. After high school she went to earn her medical assistant’s training at a technical school in Houston.
Theresa was married to John Whalen on April 20, 1974; they were married forty-nine years.
Theresa was a medical assistant for internal medicine physicians for over thirty years. As a young woman she enjoyed sports of all kinds and was a double-letterman in high school on the volleyball and swim team. She enjoyed painting and photography, taking pictures of her children and grandchildren as often as she could.
She is survived by her husband John, her son Stanley and wife Amy, her daughter Amanda and husband Rob Hereford, her sister Connye Ware, and her grandchildren Sarah, Sam, John, and Joseph, as well as extended family and friends.
She is preceded in death by her parents Richard and Marjory Lenczewski as well as her brother Rick.
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