Chelsea Cheyenne Pazera Henderson
Celebration of Life will be from 4 to 9 p.m. Saturday, June 11, at Steel Creek Campground on the Buffalo National River.
Chelsea Cheyenne Pazera Henderson, of Compton, left this world for a better place on Friday, June 3 (2016). She was 29 years old.
Chelsea was born in Eureka Springs, the daughter of Karen Ann Lathrop and Jake Pazera Wolfhart. She attended school at St. Joe and Harrison and college at North Arkansas College. She had a beautiful, creative and expressive mind and her sensitivity and thoughtfulness was felt by every one of the many people she loved and shared her life with.
In recent years Chelsea had become an expert gardener. She took great pride in the entire process from planning and planting to canning, preserving and cooking. She had also grown into a wonderful cook, and she loved to share her garden’s harvests at the table with family and friends.
She found a deep love for photography and enjoyed capturing the many beautiful parts of her life.
She was a person of great heart and love. Her love shined as bright as the sun everywhere she went, and she captured the hearts of many along her journey. She truly cherished everyone in her life and was expressive with her heart, making sure everyone knew that she loved them.
Chelsea’s giving and considerate spirit was one that could connect with anyone, could be approached with any need. She was open-hearted enough to truly and deeply listen and empathize. She deeply felt and mourned the struggles of her friends just as she cheerfully celebrated their success.
Chelsea considered herself to be an empath — a person who has an innate ability to intuitively feel and perceive others. People of all walks of life were drawn to her warmth and compassion and she delighted in sharing it with anyone who needed it.
A woman of many passions, the greatest passion was her family. She was united in marriage to John Henderson on Sept. 18, 2012. She had two beautiful sons, Ocean Mullins, 9, and Sage Henderson, 3. Her family and her role as a mother brought her all the happiness that she ever wanted. Gaither Mountain was her home and she loved having her family together in the remote splendor near her beloved Buffalo River.
Chelsea was a giving, caring, nurturing spirit. She sought out the helping professions and worked in healthcare before the birth of her second child, Sage. She considered the birthing process to be a sacred one, and in her later years was working towards becoming a midwife and showed great skill and passion for natural healing, foraging for herbs and mushrooms.
She was a genuine, nurturing healer who never met a stranger and that would help anyone at any time. She will be greatly missed for many reasons, but most of all for her humor, her grace, and her expressive, open and loving heart.
She was preceded in death by her mother, Karen Ann Lathrop.
She is survived by her husband, John Henderson; two sons, Ocean Mullins and Sage Henderson; two sisters, Sarah Cook and Megan Cook; a brother, Billy Cook; father, Jake Pazera Wolfhart; grandmother, Juanita Risley; and numerous aunts, uncles, cousins and friends.
In her remembrance, we will be celebrating her life on Saturday, June 11, from 4 to 9 p.m. at Steel Creek Campground on the Buffalo National River. We welcome everyone who was touched by her life to please come and greet her family and enjoy the fellowship of her friends. We ask that if you bring flowers, to please bring living flowers. Please feel free to bring items that remind you of Chelsea, or a memory to share of a time you spent together. These would all be beautiful gestures to celebrate her life.
"One thing I have come to understand is that we set ourselves free and obtain true freedom through the ability to feel love for everyone. And love is gained through understanding. An understanding that comes through living and breathing the change you wish to see in this world. And not by active, empty banter but finding a way to be in each moment without fear and with faith in the world around you."
- Chelsea Pazera
