Eddie Joe and Carol Sue Henry

1937 - 2025

Eddie Joe and Carol Sue Henry December 8, 1937 - September 9, 2025 Eddie Joe (Edd) Henry, and his wife Carol Sue (Sue) (DeWees) Henry, passed on to be together in eternal harmony. Edd first passed away on Tuesday, September 9, 2025. Sue followed him into Heaven on Tuesday, September 30, 2025. They had been living in Arlington, Texas, with their son, Bill, since 2022.

Sue and Edd met in Denton, Texas, while attending North Texas State University (the University of North Texas) where Edd was a member of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity and Sue was a member of the Alpha Delta Pi sorority. They were wed on December 22, 1960, at the Edgemont Methodist Church, in Dallas, Texas.

Edd was born on December 8, 1937, in Rising Star, Texas, to Edward Glen Henry and Lenell (Clark) Henry. He graduated from Rising Star High School in 1956, and from North Texas State University (The University of North Texas) in 1960. Edd was known to many as Coach Henry. He dedicated his life to the betterment of children and the community through his career as a high school math teacher and coach, and as an active member of the community. He dedicated a great share of his time to raising funds for multiple scholarships through the Breckenridge Bass Club and Breckenridge Country Club. The BBC Scholarship program was especially close to his heart. He organized and led the fundraising, and the club made opportunities available to deserving students, not solely based on grades, but for those who found themselves behind the eightball or had an uphill climb to college. Coach Henry was an avid sportsman and outdoorsman who loved his German Shorthair Pointers. He was a fierce and loyal competitor. (Shout out to all the Pipers who were in the Hamlin High School gym the day Coach Henry "scrapped Roy Guerra off the mat".) Whether coaching athletes, mentoring students, or competing with partners on the Honey Hole, and Anglers Choice, bass fishing circuits, or the Oil Belt seniors golf tour, Edd was committed to the highest standards based on the principles of Virtue, Diligence, and Brotherly Love. While he would cut your throat without a second glance in competition, he was there to share congratulations, shake hands and give hugs when the "game was over", every time. To say the least, if he was in, he was all in.

Sue was born on December 17, 1939, in Chicago, Illinois, to Charles Clifford DeWees, and Gretchen Callahan (Rowe) DeWees. Having grown up through the eighth grade in a home on the shores of Lake Winnebago, near Oshkosh, Wisconsin, her family then moved to Dallas, Texas. She graduated from W.H. Adamson High School in Dallas, in 1958. Sue attended the University of North Texas where she studied Design. She loved many subjects, especially art and science and was a dual major (Art and Biology) graduating from the University of Texas of the Permian Basin in 1976. Sue loved trips to the Texas Coast and had an affection for seashells, of which, she identified and assembled an impressive collection. She loved keeping the home and decorating for every season. Sue was a master at growing houseplants and loved landscaping and working in her flower beds. Sue was a talker and loved telling stories. It always thrilled her when boasting of having caught the "biggest fish". Like Edd, Sue devoted her life to the betterment of children and the community as an elementary school teacher and was active in the community. Of the grades she taught, Sue loved teaching third graders and believed the third grade was the most important and posed a tipping point where a child's academic fate could be won or lost. She truly loved "her children" as well as the teams she taught with and her friends (shout out to the "Cesspool Girls"!). Sue's endeavors were grounded in principles of Character, Service, Knowledge, and Sisterhood. Sue loved her family and was "all in" with the Coaches' Wives. In keeping records for track meets and fomenting the spirit of the football team with weekly themes and locker room decorations for the Pied Pipers and Buckaroos, Sue valued school athletics as a vehicle to shape the character of young men and women through morals and values based in Christ. She was vested in the livelihood of her students and spent much of her time outside of work pulling together resources and making sure less fortunate children had what they needed. Whether it was a need for food, clothes, or a special item for a birthday or Christmas, she was dedicated to making sure every child felt special and loved. Through the years it was impossible to shop in town or dine in a restaurant without receiving an exuberant greeting and warm hugs from one or more of her former students. Ask any of her friends and former students and they will tell you Mrs. Henry's family extended far beyond flesh and blood.

Sue and Edd were wonderful, dedicated, loving parents who worked to make sure their three boys had all the things and opportunities they needed. While Dad set the expectations, Mom was the glue that held it all together and everyone knew it. Raising a family of "lake rats" in parched West Texas required frequent, long trips and extended campouts to lakes across the state, to the Laguna Madre on the Texas Coast, and lakes hundreds of miles into Mexico. Summer adventures provided enough stories to fill a million pages and indelible images for everlasting memories. Edd and Sure are survived by their sons, William Glen (Bill) (63yrs), Don Alan (61yrs) and Granddaughter Morgan Marie (19 yrs), and Gregory Lee (55 yrs). Others include Sue's sister, Mary Ellen DeWees (87 yrs), her beloved nieces, Niece, Lee Ann English, Great Niece Lauren Helfrich, Great Niece Meigan Elise English, and Great-great Niece, Monroe Jean Powers.

Lord knows it has been quite a journey and we've shared more than a lifetime's worth of ups, downs, and all arounds; living and loving with Mom and Dad was, and will remain, a wonderful, rewarding, crazy adventure. Thank you for everything Mom and Dad. We will always love you, and each other, just as you expect.

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Hope for Children Foundation

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Alzheimer's Association

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