Carl Fred Henninger, 87, of Beaumont died September 27, 2005 at St. Joseph Hospital.
Carl was born in Woodstock, Illinois, but his family moved to Kingsville, the lower Rio Grand Valley when he was a child. He attended high school in Raymondville, Texas and then joined the United States Navy serving six years in the Pacific and the Aleutians Theaters aboard the USNS Pruitt.
In 1946, he entered Texas A&M College and graduated with a B.S. in Horticulture in 1949. A registered Landscape Architect, he designed many projects in southeast Texas, including Town and Country Village in Houston. Over the years, Carl served in the Texas A&M System in the Extension Service as a County Agent, in the Texas Forestry Service Nursery at Alto, Texas and was the first Superintendent of the Texas Pine Seedling Nursery at Magnolia Springs, Texas. Carl retired in 1983 from the Texas A&M Agricultural Experiment Station at China, Texas. An active member of Calder Baptist Church, he also served as the past President of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association and was a 32nd Degree Mason in the Beaumont Lodge.
Carl is preceded in death by his first wife of twenty-seven years, Lucille Yarbrough of Denton, Texas; his second wife of thirty-one years, Mildred Foreman Henninger of Beaumont; and two brothers, Bobby Henninger of Washington, D.C. and George Henninger of Hillsborough Texas.
Survivors include one son, Glenn D. Henninger and his wife Judy of Houston; one daughter, Elizabeth Ann Henninger Pryhoda and her husband Thomas of Westerly, Rhode Island; three grandchildren, Ryan Henninger, Aaron Henninger, and Adam Romano; seven great grandchildren; one step-son, Joseph C. Virgilio and his wife Betty; two step grandsons, Daryl Virgilio of Washington, D.C. and R. L. Virgilio of Houston.
Funeral services will be 2:00 p.m. Saturday, October 8, 2005 at Calder Baptist Church with Dr. James Fuller officiating. Entombment will follow at Forest Lawn Memorial Park under the direction of Broussard’s, 2000 McFaddin, Beaumont. A gathering of family and friends will be from 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. Friday evening, October 7, 2005 at the mortuary.
Memorial contributions may be made to Calder Baptist Church, 1005 N 11th Street, Beaumont, Texas 77702.
