Funeral for Henry Davis Stephenson, 92, of Decatur will be Sunday, February 8, 2015, at 2:30 p.m. at Ridout’s Brown-Service Funeral Home with Reverend Tommy Lee officiating. Burial will be in Roselawn Cemetery. Visitation will be from 12:30 p.m. until service time.
Mr. Stephenson, who died Wednesday, February 4, 2015, was born September 8, 1922, in Lawrence County to Russell and Fannie Leigh Stephenson. He was a member of Austinville Baptist Church. He worked for NASA for 18 years during the Apollo era, then for Bryant Welding and North Alabama Trailer.
Survivors include his wife, Gwendolyn “Billie” Stephenson; three sons, Roger D. Stephenson and wife, Vicki, Ken Stephenson and wife, Gina, and Paul Stephenson and wife, Michele; daughter, Freda Thompson and husband, Myron; niece, Lucy Bolding; three grandsons, Jud and wife, Emily, Dan and wife, Lauren, and Russell Stephenson; one granddaughter, Nichole Poole and husband, Michael; and two great-grandchildren, Hadley and Ainsley Poole.
