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Obituary
VANBUREN HENDERSON,
92, of Huntington, passed away Friday, June 14, 2013, at the Emogene Dolin
Jones Hospice House of Huntington. Funeral services will be conducted at 2
p.m. Wednesday, June 19, 2013, at the Reger Funeral Chapel by Pastor John
Skaggs. Burial will follow in White Chapel Memorial Gardens, Barboursville.
He was born June 30, 1920, in Huntington, W.Va., a son of the late Elijah
and Maude Ferris Henderson. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army having served
during World War II and the Korean War. VanBuren was a an executive chef,
having worked at the Frederick Hotel in Huntington, the Greenbrier Resort in
White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., Greenhills Country Club in Ravenswood, W.Va.,
and other well-known hotels and restaurants. He was also a chef to three
West Virginia governors, Cecil Underwood, Arch Moore and Sen. Jay
Rockefeller, and he was privileged to be a chef to a number of famous people
and government dignitaries, including Tyrone Power, Richard Nixon and John
D. Rockefeller. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his
wife of 65 years, Laura Treavel Mounts Henderson; three children, Jerry Lee
Henderson and his twin sister Judy Marie Clem, and Carolyn Henderson;
granddaughter, Bryony Elizabeth Henderson; three brothers and three sisters.
Survivors include two sons and daughters-in-law, Van Dwight and Nancy
Henderson of Sacramento, Calif., and Dr. Dan W. Henderson and his wife Leigh
Ann Henderson of Milton, W.Va.; two daughters and a son-in-law, Janet
Crouse, and Joyce and Lee Daugherty, all of Baltimore, Md.; a host of
grandchildren; and several nieces nephews and friends. Friends may call from
1 p.m. until service time Wednesday at the Reger Funeral Home. Graveside
military rites will be conducted by the Veterans Honor Guard of American
Legion Post 16 of Huntington.
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