Audrey Elizabeth Kenyon peacefully passed onward and upward while surrounded by family on June 29, 2025 at the age of 91.
Audrey was born in Casper Wyoming in January of 1934, to Harold Jefferson Masters and Hildegarde Agnes Waechter. Her father died unexpectedly two years later and her mother moved her family to Glendale, California to be closer to her brother Carl Waechter. Audrey grew up in Glendale. She graduated from Hoover High School and went on to receive a Bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education from the University of California-Los Angeles in 1956.
Audrey began teaching elementary school children in the Bay Area of California and later followed her brother Burton (Bud) to Los Alamos, NM where she continued to educate. Audrey taught second graders at Mesa Elementary school when she met and married Merrill Kenyon. Audrey and Merrill lovingly raised three children: Jesse, Matthew, and Kristin.
Audrey loved backpacking, camping, traveling, homemaking, woodcarving, baking, cooking, sewing, quilting, family history, and gardening. She enjoyed entering flowers and later quilts in the Los Alamos County Fair. She was a Den Mother a “Pink Lady” (Auxiliary Volunteer) at Los Alamos Medical Center, a substitute teacher, and later embarked on a 19 year career as an
Outreach Coordinator with the Los Alamos Senior Center where she received accolades for her work from the State Government.
Audrey and Merrill spent their retirement years RV’ing with the Pajarito Sam’s as well as traveling the globe to places like Rome, Fiji, New Zealand, and Australia.
She was preceded in death by her husband Merrill, sister Mary Evelyn, and daughter-in-law Cecilia. She is survived by her brother Burton, her children Jesse (Tara), Matthew, Kristin; grandchildren: Jacob, Cody, and Grant.
Audrey will be buried with her husband Merrill of 59 years in the Santa Fe National Cemetery in Santa Fe per pre-arranged plans with DeVargas Funeral Home in Espanola. Mass will be offered at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church in Los Alamos, at 11 a.m. Monday, July 14. The burial service will be held on Tuesday, July 15, at 9 a.m. at the Santa Fe National Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers please consider donating to the Los Alamos Visiting Nurses as we gratefully acknowledge their great support during her final days.
The family of Audrey Kenyon has entrusted the care of their loved one to DeVargas Funeral Home& Crematory of the beautiful Espanola Valley, (505) 747-7477.