![]() Kitty McKay, administrator of community and patient experience at Carson Tahoe, was among many at the celebration wiping away tears. Henderson still serves as minister of the Airport Road church that will celebrate 50 years come October, but his work for the nondenominational, interfaith chaplain ministry at the hospital has come to an end. The 76-year-old minister of Airport Road Church of Christ retired this year as a volunteer chaplain at Carson Tahoe after 37 years of official ministry, though he was walking the halls of the old hospital as far back as 1974. On June 28, on the third floor of the Carson Tahoe Regional Medical Center, colleagues and family gathered to pay tribute to Henderson. ![]() ![]() “When it’s viewed as a chore, it doesn’t take long to get over that because you get emotional feedback, even when it’s not in words, and you know you’re at the place you’re supposed to be,” Henderson said. But Bruce Henderson swears that making the rounds at Carson Tahoe over the last several decades made him “light as a feather.” Comforting the sick or dying or bereaved can be a heavy responsibly, even for a trained hospital chaplain.
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