Stephens, Henley Jr.

Passed: 1949-11-12

Age: 27

Source: Jackson Herald

Death Notice:

Obituary Date: 1949-11-18

Information:                 A veteran who suffered wounds from which he never recovered while storming German lines in Normandy on July 6, 1944, died in the Veterans Hospital at Huntington Saturday night, and his comrades in arms paid him a final tribute of funeral services conducted from the Vail Funeral Home here Monday afternoon.  He was Henley Stephens Jr., who returned from the war a helpless invalid as the result of a wound in the spine.  For his gallantry in action he was awarded the Bronze Star, the Purple Heart and the Combat Infantry Badge.   Since his return from the service Stephens had lived near Ripley, and had been a patient in the Veterans Hospital only a short time before his death.  The service was conducted by the Rev. W. W. Harvey and the burial was in the Fairplain Cemetery.  He was born at Elverton, WV on Aug. 27, 1922, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Henley Stephens.  On May 2, 1947 he married Geneva Correy, who with the parents, a brother, William of Ward, WV, and a sister, Mrs. Beulah Slate, of War, survive.  (Betty Kessel McIntyre obit collection)