SP4 Charles Ray Henley, Union Lake, MI on www.VirtualWall.org The Virtual Wall® Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall

SP4 Charles Ray Henley, son of Mary L. Lindsey and William E. Henley, grew up in the Union Lake and Walled Lake area, 28 miles northwest of Detroit, Michigan. He attended the Walled Lake Consolidated School System and was drafted into the service.

He was killed while on a land clearing team when hit by fragments from an enemy boobytrap. His mother was living in Union Lake at the time of his death and his father was living in Pontiac, Michigan. Charles was single at the time of his death.

Local area papers published the following obituary: "He was scheduled to come home this month, but Army Spec/4 Charles R.. Henley was killed in Vietnam, at 10:40 a.m. on July 15 by shrapnel and a land mine or booby trap while on duty with a land-clearing team. He was not yet 21. He would have been on November 29."

"His mother and step-father are Mr and Mrs. Stweart Lindset, 1408 Caprice, Union Lake. His father is William Henley. There is one brother, William Heneley Jr., 24, married and the father of a three-year-old daughter, who lives in Union Lake also."

"Charles attended Dublin, Charles H. Smart and Walled Lake Senior High schools, and worked at Pontiac Motors. He enlisted in the Army on October 20, 1966, and arrived in Vietnam on September 20, 1967. His basic training was at Fort Knox, Ky, and his AIT in engineering at Fort Belvoir, Wa. He was assigned to Company D, 14th Engineer Batdtalion, 18th Engineer Brigade."

"News reports are supposed to be free of editorial comment, but does anyone object if this reporter says, 'Truly he died serving his fellows and his country!'"

"Elton Black Funeral Home in Union Lake is handling the funeral arrangements."

SP4 Charles Ray Henley is buried Oakland Hills Memorial Gardens Cemetery, Novi, Oakland County, Michigan.

- - The Virtual Wall, June 1, 2020