Gene Henley, a 90-year-old former Humphreys resident, died at 5:40 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 18, 2005 at the Sunnyview Nursing Home in Trenton, where had resided since Dec. 30, 2003.
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Gene Henley, a 90-year-old former Humphreys resident, died at 5:40 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 18, 2005 at the Sunnyview Nursing Home in Trenton, where had resided since Dec. 30, 2003.
Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2005 at the Payne Funeral Home in Galt. Burial will be in the Humphreys Cemetery. There is no family visitation planned at the funeral home.
Mr. Henley was born on Jan. 2, 1915 on a farm near Humphreys, the son of Calvin Monroe and Verne Peterson Henley. He attended Green Valley rural grade school. He lived all his life in the Humphreys, Galt and Browning communities, where he farmed. He moved to Humphreys to make his home in 1982.
He was married at Milan on Oct. 19, 1936 to Enda Axtell, who preceded him in death on March 21, 1981. He was married at Humphreys on July 25, 1982 to Letha Chambers Pease, who survives of Humphreys.
He was a member of the Humphreys Christian Church.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by one son, Paul Henley and his wife, Sandy, of Milan; three step daughters, Dixie, now Mrs. Bill Cox of Trenton, Martha, now Mrs. Delbert Jackson of Galt and Sandy, now Mrs. Gary Smith of Brimson; six grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; and one sister, Leila McCormick of Chillicothe.
He was preceded in death by his first wife; his parents; one brother, Quentin Henley; and three sisters Genevieve Hart, Wilma Jean Connover and Lucille Johnson.
The family suggests memorial contributions to the Alzheimer’s Association or the Humphreys Cemetery.