The Mt. Adams Sun, Bingen, WA., November 7, 1968, page 3

BINGEN MAN DIES AT 85

     Funeral services will be held Friday, Nov. 8, at 10:30 a.m. in Gardner's Funeral Chapel at White Salmon for Henry Henningsen, 85, of Bingen. He died November 2 at Skyline Hospital in White Salmon, where he had been a patient since September 20. Rev. William Newkirk will officiate and burial will be at Glenwood in the family plot beside his parents, brother, Willie and two uncles, George and Peter Tams.
     Mr. Henningsen was born Oct. 30, 1883 at Glenwood. His brother, Adolph, is believed to be living at Susanville, Calif. 30, 1883 at Glenwood to hans and Katarina Tams Henningsen. The family moved to Oregon in 1902, then he came back to Bingen and lived with his cousin, John Tams, whose home was on the present site of the Lutheran Church. Prior to his retirement he was a night watchman at a mill in Bingen.
     He is survived by his brother, Adolph Henningsen in Susanville, Calif.
     Mr. Henningsen used to tell tales of his experiences with the Indians when he was a youngster in Glenwood, and of the three wild geese that acted as watchdogs for the family.

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