In March, Kirby Johnson acquired the 3.7-acre tract and the two buildings that remained. The price through a court-ordered sale was $168,000. “I’ve been working on getting this property for about 10 years and I’ve finally been able to make it happen,” Johnson said. “We hope to use the gym for an antique tractor and implement museum and maybe make a duplex out of the cafeteria next door.” Johnson, a Mills River produce grower and packer who lives in the Valley Hill community, is connected with IHCC Chapter 43, a Western North Carolina antique tractor collectors club. On Saturday a yard sale was held in the old gym which, after a dozen years, was cleaned up for the event. The gym and cafeteria, both brick structures, are fully functional. After years of neglect, the school was bought by Pathway Christian Academy and used as a school again. But hard times fell on the private school business during the recession and the elements took a toll on the oldest of the three schoo
Deborah B. Herr of Quarryville went home to be with the Lord at Lancaster General Hospital on Wednesday, May 12, 2021. She was 71.
Born in West Chester, she was the daughter of the late Arthur and Shirley Brown. Debbie graduated with Honors from Henderson High School. She received a scholarship to attend Chester County Hospital School of Nursing, where she served as President of her class. It was on a blind date that she met her faithful and loving husband, Kenneth H. Herr. Three months later they were engaged and through many trials stayed true to their wedding vows for the last 50 years.
Children and grandchildren who visited the graveyard on Mothers Day to pay respects were greeted by knee-high weeds and grass that nearly obscured headstones. Word spread on social media and WLOS-TV reported on the aggrieved families who wondered who is taking care of the memorial park. (State regulators last November suspended the license of Thos. Shepherd & Son Funeral Service, the cemetery owner, as a result of a complaint that still awaits a final resolution.)
Enter Sam Byrnside and Aaron Owensby, owners of L&S Landscaping and A to Z Landscaping respectively. Both Henderson County natives, Byrnside and Owensy dropped a day of paid work and brought a crew of six to mow and weedwhack every blade of grass.
Henderson County (May 13, 2021) - Henderson County residents who have family members buried at Shepherd Memorial Park had become increasingly distressed at the condition of the cemetery.
Henderson native, SLU assistant coach dies at 29 Ford Stuen (Source: St. Louis University) By 14 News Staff | May 12, 2021 at 9:35 AM CDT - Updated May 12 at 9:35 AM
HENDERSON, Ky. (WFIE) - A former Henderson High School basketball player, who had become an assistant college basketball coach has died.
Our NBC sister station, KSDK, reports 29-year-old Ford Stuen died Tuesday.
He had been in the hospital since Easter with an infection.
Stuen played college basketball at Oklahoma State under his uncle Travis Ford, who is now the head coach at St. Louis University.
Stuen was an assistant coach under him and was named to the National Association of Basketball Coaches’ 30 under 30 during his first year at SLU.