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William Byron Henderson © Enid News and Eagle 08-14-2014 Submitted by: Glenn
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FAYETTEVILLE, ARK. — William “Bill” Byron Henderson, 58, currently of Fayetteville, Ark., passed suddenly while working in Karama, Egypt, on Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014. He was born Jan. 12, 1956, at Bryan AFB, Bryan, Texas, to the late William Henderson and Kathleen Henderson.
Bill graduated from Garber High School in 1974.
He married Carol (White) Henderson May 3, 1980, and they resided in Drummond, Okla., until 1997. They relocated to Ninnekah, Okla., where they lived until 2010.
Bill was employed by Apache Corporation for 28 years.
He was very passionate about his family and career.
Recently, Bill was honored with Apache Improvement Method through Understanding Performance (AIM UP) award.
Bill had a love for fishing, Harley Davidson motorcycles, show pigs, and most of all his family and beloved grandchildren.
Bill was survived by his wife of 34 years, Carol Henderson of Fayetteville, Ark.; daughter and son-in-law, Savannah and Justin Blankenship and grandchildren Billy Joe and Braxton Blankenship of Fayetteville, Ark.; daughter, Mckenzie Henderson of Skiatook, Okla.; mother, Kathleen Henderson of Enid, Okla.; two sisters and brothers-in-law, Debbie and Dwight Chustz of Spring Hill, Tenn., and Beverly and Denny Peterson of Yukon, Okla.; as well as many nieces and nephews and a host of cousins and friends.
Bill was preceded in death by his father, William “Bill” Henderson, and his grandparents, William W. Henderson Sr., Ott and Martha Henderson Sturgell and Edgar Byron and Olive Fannon Walker.
A Celebration of Life service will be 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 16, 2104, at Ladusau-Evans Chapel, with the Rev. Alan Siebel officiating. Burial will follow at Memorial Park Cemetery under the direction of Ladusau-Evans Funeral Home. The family will receive friends from 6-7:30 p.m. today, Aug. 15, at the funeral home.
Memorials may be made to the charity of the donor’s choice, with Ladusau-Evans Funeral Home serving as custodian of the funds.
Condolences may be made online and the service may be viewed online for those unable to attend the service at www.ladusauevans.com.
(Submitted by family)
William Byron Henderson © Enid News and Eagle 12-01-2014 Submitted by: Jo Aguirre
© Enid News and Eagle
CAIRO — An Egyptian militant organization allied with the Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for killing Garber High School graduate and oil worker William Henderson in August.
Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, which now calls itself the Sinai Province, said on its Twitter account late Sunday it killed Henderson, of Fayetteville, Ark. It published pictures of his passport and two identification cards. It did not say when or how it killed him.
The passport said he was a 58-year-old from Texas and his ID cards said he worked for Texas-based energy company Apache Corp. and Qarun Petroleum Co., a joint venture with Egypt. Apache said in August one of its supervisors had been killed in an apparent carjacking in Egypt’s Western Desert. The company did not identify the man, but the Enid News & Eagle published an obituary for William Henderson in August, which said he had “passed suddenly” while working in Egypt. It said he had worked for Apache for 28 years and was 58 when he died. The U.S. embassy declined to comment on the militant group’s claim, and Apache could not immediately be reached for comment.
Later Monday, Enid attorney Stephen Jones, who is representing Henderson’s estate, denounced his “senseless” murder “in cold blood in broad daylight.” The statement said Henderson grew up in Enid and Garber, and that he and his wife of more than three decades, Carol, have children and grandchildren. It said thousands had attended Henderson’s funeral. In mid-November, Jones, citing a New York Times report, said he suspected Egyptian militants pledging obedience to the Islamic State group killed the Garber High grad. “We have been in contact with various law enforcement officials in Egypt,” Jones said last month. “This New York Times story underscores what we have suspected — that it was a terrorist act. That is our working hypothesis.”
According to Henderson’s obituary, he graduated from Garber High School in 1984 and lived in Drummond until 1997.
Sinai-based Ansar Beit al-Maqdis has carried out scores of attacks, mostly on Egyptian security forces, since the July 2013 overthrow of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. Last month, it pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group, which controls much of Syria and Iraq.
In a separate statement, the group claimed Sunday to have carried out more than 10 attacks in the past four weeks, blowing up six army and police armored vehicles, killing seven police officers and conscripts, and destroyed the house of a suspected spy for the army.
The northern part of Sinai has been under a state of emergency since the group attacked an army checkpoint in October, killing 31 soldiers.
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