The family will receive friends from 12:00pm until 2:00pm on Wednesday, February 1, 2023 at Baldwin-Lee Funeral Home in Pearl. The funeral service will follow afterwards in the funeral home chapel. The graveside service will take place at 4:00pm that same day at Harmony Baptist Church Cemetery in Crystal Springs, Mississippi.
A lifelong Mississippi native, Allen was born to the late John Thomas Henry and Doris Sellers Henry on November 9, 1943. He retired from Stone Containers as a foreman after 44 years of dedicated employment. In his free time, he enjoyed deer hunting and spending time with his family.
In addition his parents, preceding him in death are his children, Theresa McGraw and Randall Henry and his siblings, Vance, Don, and Sybil Henry.
Allen is survived by his wife, Eva Henry; sons, James Allen Henry, Jr and Shane Henry; daughters, Tina Shelley Riels and Brenda Renita Shelley Pridgen; brother, Eric Henry; six grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; and three great-great grandchildren.
He will be so dearly missed.
Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.baldwinleepearl.com for the Henry family.
