Michael Neil Henry

Family/Spouse: Nancy Kay Looney. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Brandon Neil Henry
2. Ryan Cary Henry

Glen married Mary Margaret Conway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

MY MEMORY OF MY FATHER IS RATHER VAGUE AT BEST, BUT, I NEVER REMEMBER HIM
SPANKING ME FOR THE THINGS I DID WRONG WHILE I WAS GROWING UP. HE ALWAYS
HAD TIME FOR ME AND REALLY BECAME A BUDDY TO ME. HE TAUGHT ME TO HUNT
AND FISH. I REMEMBER TO THIS DAY HOW HE CONTINUALLY STRESSED THAT I
RESPECT MY GUN AND WHAT IT COULD DO TO OTHERS. THE MOST DIFFICULT TIME
OF MY LIFE WAS SPENT WITH FATHER JUST BEFORE HE DIED. HE GAVE ME
INSTRUCTIONS TO TAKE CARE OF MOTHER. THIS MOMENT IS STILL VERY VIVID IN
MY MIND TODAY.

I KNOW MY FATHER WANTED TO SEE RURAL ELECTRIFICATION BECOME A REALITY AND
WHEN IT HAPPENetherlands HE WAS EXTREMELY HAPPY. HE THOUGHT THIS COULD LEAD TO
BETTER THINGS FOR FARMERS. HIS VISON OF THIS HAS PROVED TO BE CORRECT
MANY TIMES OVER.

MY FATHER WAS APPROACHING RETIREMENT AND I DO BELIEVE HE AND MOTHER WERE
THINKING ABOUT BUYING A SMALL ACREAGE JUST OUTSIDE OF SUPERIOR. I
REMEMBER DAD ASKING ME IF I WOULD MIND FINISHING HIGH SCHOOL AT SUPERIOR.

I ALSO REMEMBER DAD DID NOT CARE TO TRAVEL AS HE WOULD BE AWAY FROM HOME
JUST A FEW HOURS AND THEN IT WAS TIME TO GET ON THE ROAD BACK TO HOME.
HE WASN'T REALLY HAPPY AWAY FROM HOME.

THE FOLLOWING WAS TAKEN FROM THE GUIDE ROCK SIGNAL APRIL 14, 1949:.

THE FUNERAL OF ULRIC HENRY WAS HELD AT 2:30 SUNDAY AT THE METHODIST
CHURCH, WITH THE SERMON BY REV. C. F. WATTERS.

WITH MRS. A. MENDENHALL AT THE PIANO, MRS. E.A. MORANVILLE, ALLEN VAUGHAN
AND CECIL ALLINGTON SANG FOR THE SERVICE.

JUNIOR LEGION BOYS WERE USHERS AND HAD CHARGE OF THE FLOWERS. BURIAL WAS
MADE IN THE GUIDE ROCK CEMETERY.

PALLBEARERS WERE HAROLD DOYLE, BUREN REED, LOREN BAILEY, EARL DELAY, BILL
DELAY, AND TIM HENDRICKSON.

ULRIC HENRY DIED AS THE RESULT OF INJURIES RECEIVED WHEN HIS TRACTOR
OVERTURNetherlands.

THE FOLLOWING OBITUARY WAS READ AT HIS FUNERAL SERVICE:

ULRIC, YOUNGEST SON OF JAMES AND HARRIETT HENRY, WAS BORN DECEMBER 19,
1882, AT GLASCO, KS. HE CAME WITH HIS PARENTS TO GUIDE ROCK, NE. IN 1891
AT THE AGE OF NINE. THE REMAINDER OF HIS LIFE WAS SPENT ON THE FARM
SOUTH OF GUIDE ROCK. HE PASSED AWAY AT THE MARY LANNING HOSPITAL AT
HASTINGS, NE., APRIL 6, 1949.

HE WAS MARRIED TO VERNA PAYNE FEBRUARY 29, 1912. TO THIS UNION WERE BORN
FOUR CHILDREN, WAYNE, WHO PASSED AWAY IN 1929 AT THE AGE OF 16 YEARS,
GLEN AND NEIL OF GUIDE ROCK, AND IONE WHITE OF GULFPORT, MISSISSIPPI.
BESIDES HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN HE IS ALSO SURVIVED BY HIS DAUGHTER-IN-LAW,
MARY, SON-IN-LAW CARL WHITE, THREE GRANDCHILDREN, KATHLEEN AND KAREN
WHITE, AND MICHAEL HENRY; ONE BROTHER, WIN, WHO LEVED WITH HIM, AND A
SISTER, MARY HIBNER OF BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON.

HE WAS A MAN OF OUTSTANDING CHARACTER. HIS LIFE WAS SPENT WHOLLY FOR THE
DEVOTION AND WELFARE OF HIS FAMILY, AND HIS FRIENDS WERE NUMBERED BY HIS
AQUAINTANCES.

Ulric married Verna Nancy Payne [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

MY (SYLVIA PAYNE WILLIAMS) FATHER WAS A HARD WORKING FARMER. WHEN HE WAS
RAISING THE FAMILY (FOUR BOYS AND FIVE GIRLS) HE DID THE FARMING WITH
HORSES. AFTER WALKING BEHIND THE PLOW OR LISTER FOR SEVERAL HOURS, WHICH
WAS TIRING WORK, HE ALWAYS TOOK TIME TO PLAY WITH THE CHILDREN, HE LOVED
TO PLAY THE VIOLIN FOR THEM. HE ALSO PLAYED THE VIOLIN FOR DANCES.
FATHER ALSO WENT INTO THE RESTAURANT BUSINESS IN CULBERTSON, NE. BEFORE
RETIRING.

I (NEIL) REMEMBER GRANDFATHER WILLIAM PLAYING THE VIOLIN IN 1950 WHEN I
VISITED HIM IN HIS HOME IN CALIFORNIA. HE WAS BLIND AT THE TIME BUT HE
REALLY ENJOYED PLAYING.

William married Mary Elizabeth Gleason on 26 Aug 1888 in Trenton, Hitchcock County, NE. Mary (daughter of John S. Gleason and Nancy Ann Leeper) was born on 30 Jul 1870 in Munden, Republic County, KS; died on 20 Jan 1914 in Guide Rock, Webster County, NE; was buried in Guide Rock, Webster County, NE. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

MY (SYLVIA PAYNE WILLIAM'S) MOTHER, MARY ELIZABETH (EVERYONE CALLED HER
LIBBY) WAS SUCH A GOOD MOTHER. I WAS ONLY NINE YEARS OLD WHEN SHE PASSED
AWAY, BUT I CAN REMEMBER THE GOOD THINGS SHE DID FOR ALL OF US----LIKE
COOKING, SEWING, CANNING AND KEEPING US ALL IN SCHOOL.

SHE WAS SUCH A GOOD CHRISTIAN MOTHER.