Raymond Harley HENNINGSEN

HENNINGSEN, TAPPER, ASCHE, BROGMUS, SPENCER

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 5/19/2007 at 19:30:33

Mason City Globe Gazette
07/11/1996

Raymond Harley Henningsen, 78, 1412 Main Ave., Clear Lake, died Wednesday (July 10, 1996) at his home. Memorial services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, 101 N. Fourth St., with the Rev. Dean Hess of Zion Lutheran Church officiating. The family will be at the funeral home one hour before services to greet friends. Inurnment will be in the columbarium at Memorial Park Cemetery, Mason City, with military honors conducted by the Clear Lake VFW. The family suggests memorials be given to the Raymond H. Henningsen Memorial Fund.

Ray was born July 24, 1917, in Minneapolis, Minn., the son of Harley and Mary Ellen (Tapper) Henningsen. He attended school in Cedar Rapids and high school in Anamosa. Ray drove semi in Waterloo in 1937. He served in the United States Army during World War II and drove truck in Iran while in the service. He moved back to Parkersburg and drove semi. Ray married Mary (Asche) Brogmus on June 25, 1963, in Canton, N.D. He was a police officer in Eagle Grove in 1965 and deputy sheriff in Wright County in 1967 and also worked part time for the Belmond Police Department. In 1968, he moved to Clear Lake and drove semi for Ruan until his retirement in 1977. He was justice of the peace in Clear Lake from 1976-1977. Ray enjoyed telling jokes, fishing and doing wood working. He was a life member of the Clear Lake VFW.

Ray is survived by his wife, Mary Henningsen, of Clear Lake;one daughter, Terri Spencer and her husband, Michael, of Fort Dodge; and two grandchildren, Cynthia Spencer of Fort Dodge, and Michael Spencer Jr. of Virginia Beach, Va. He was preceded in death by his parents.