- State: Florida
Timothy G. Hensz passed away on March 10, 2016.
SGT Timothy G. Hensz has over 21 years in the National Guard. He was a Federal Technician for the MATES at Camp Blanding Joint Training Center.
SGT Timothy G. Hensz deployed to Iraq in 2008-2009, while there he went online and met Vicky Esteban. They Skyped and instant messaged for the duration of his deployment. He would call her house every day and talk with her or her Mother or Sisters. She had no idea that he kept contact with them and had their respect. They had fallen in love. SGT Hensz returned to the United States and emailed Vicky a picture of his plane ticket to the Philippines and told her he was coming to ask her Mother for her hand in marriage. Vicky had a big decision to make, leave her family and her family’s’ business and travel to America all alone. Tim showed up at her house and fell on his knees before her Mother and asked for her hand in marriage. Their love proved strong and she agreed to marry Timothy. SGT Hensz returned to the United States where it took three years for him to go through all of the paperwork to bring her to his home. They married in 2011 in Lake Butler, Florida and had a son, Louis Adam, in 2012. SGT Timothy Hensz developed cancer in 2014. He went into remission January 2015. However, in July of 2015 he was told that the cancer had returned. He started chemotherapy again, but it did not work. He was moved to Community Hospice of Northeast Florida. Vicky wanted to be remarried by a minister. She is very religious and wanted to be married before God. On March 3, the MATES told Vicky to show up at Hospice in a white dress and they threw her and Tim the wedding ceremony they never had in front of Chaplain Peppers. SGT Hensz passed away on 10 March the day after his birthday. Vicky had lost the love of her life, actually he was her first and only boyfriend.
