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Submitted: 6/27/21 • Approved: 6/27/21 • Last Updated: 6/30/21 • R431686-G0-S3
July 22, 1937-May 16, 1951
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Final rites will be held tomorrow at 2 p.m. for Bennie David Henson, 13, son of Mr. and Mrs. Willard W. Henson, 403 E. Third, who died at the family home at 6:05 p.m. Wednesday following an illness of several months.
Bennie was a member of the Calvary Baptist Church and Troop 91, Boy Scouts of America.
Survivors other than the parents include three brothers, Ralph Wilson, Charles Walter and Roy Leon Henson, all of Borger, one sister, Linda Sue Henson, Borger; his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Melton, Memphis, Texas.
Rev. Jeff Moore, pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church, will conduct the final rites, which will be held in the Calvary Baptist Church.
Interment will be made in the Highland Park cemetery, under the direction of Blackburn-Shaw-Brown Funeral Home.
(Published in Borger News Herald, May 17, 1951, p1, c8)
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Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997
Name: Benny David Henson
Date of Birth: 22 Jul 1937
Gender: Male
Birth County: Hall
Father's name: Willard Wilson Henson
Mother's name: Jewel Artie Melton
Roll number: 1937_0004
Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Bennie David Henson
Death Date: 16 May 1951
Death County: Hutchinson
Certificate: 25245
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Bennie David Henson
Birth Date: 22 Jul 1937
Birth Place: Memphis, Texas
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas
Father: Willard W Henson
Mother: Jewel Melton
Age at Death: 13
Death Date: 16 May 1951
Death Place: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Contributed on 6/27/21
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