Elizabeth Jeanene Tichenor, 80, Lenexa, Ks passed away Monday, December 9th 2024 at Care Haven Homes Broadmoor House. A memorial service will be held at Community Covenant Church at

15700 W. 87th St, Parkway, Lenexa, Ks 66215, on February 1, 2025. Visitation will be at 10 AM and a service will start at 11 AM. The family requests no flowers and suggests memorial contributions go to the Community Covenant Church building fund.

Jeanene Was born August 12, 1944, in Deming, NM the daughter of Tillman and Dorthy Wayne. She moved to Tucumcari and Clovis, NM and then to Carlsbad NM. When she entered the 5th Grade in Carlsbad, NM and found out that her teacher was Dan Blocker before he became Hoss Cartwright on the TV show Bonanza. She graduated from high school in 1962 and went to the University of Texas at El Paso where she met and married Edward Jasuta Jr. and graduated in 1967 with a B.A. degree in English. They moved to Killeen, TX where her husband took a job, and she began to teach at Central Texas College in 1971. They eventually had three boys, John (Dianna) Jerry, and Jeff (Lynette) and divorced in 1976. While she was at CTC, she taught English and Developmental Reading for College Prep; she took on the job of Editor for a Solar Energy Research Project; she was the scheduler, cost control, and fiscal manager for the CTC Publications Dept; a counselor for the СТС/CETA Program; and got her MS Degree in Counseling from American Technological University.

She was active outside of work in the local P.T.A., Red Cross, and directed the Adult I Department of the First Baptist Church of Killeen, TX. In 1979 she ran into a young Army Captain by the name of Arthur (Skip) Tichenor who had three children Elizabeth, Amy and Daniel (Roxanne), from a previous marriage. It took them both, three years to determine that they were "the right one" this time and got married in 1982. With three kids each, they have 11 grandkids: Kenneth Jasuta, Mason Jasuta, Hailey Jasuta, Meaghan Jasuta, Lewis Russell, Emma Torres, Sanford McSwain, Angus McSwain, Savannah Tichenor, Jake Tichenor, and Luke Tichenor. She is also survived by her brother, Jerry Wayne of Colorado. Since she was a highly educated military wife, no one would hire her because they were afraid, she would move too soon when they were assigned to Forts Leonard Wood, MO, and Leavenworth, KS. She became very active in her churches and the Officer's Wives Clubs. She turned her previous skills and accomplishments into becoming a Consultant in Training and Management and worked for large companies like Exxon and AT&T and worked on a federal grant to study child abuse in the military. While at Fort Leavenworth, she was hired as a Facilitator and Curriculum Development Specialist with The Command Team Seminar. They trained the spouses (mostly wives at that time) of all the senior officers who had been selected to command battalion and higher units in the Army on what to do when their husbands went off to war. This was especially critical when whole units got wiped out such as the 100+ men that died in a plane crash on their way back from the Middle East as they took off on the final leg of their journey home to Ft. Campbell, KY. Her counseling background helped her to know what to say about death and dying. She was very good at listening to people, especially those that seem to be marginalized in our culture today.