James LeRoy Henry of Spirit Lake has reported at the U. S. Naval Training school at the Butler University fieldhouse at Indianapolis, Ind., for an intensive 16 week course designed to train him as a Navy signalman. While stationed there, he will receive training in four kinds of signaling, blinker search lights, seaman shore and flags. Upon successful completion of the course, he will be assigned to a ship or shore station.
Source: Spirit Lake Beacon, July 2, 1942
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James LeRoy Henry was born Dec. 12, 1907 to Walter Odis Shelley and Elsie May Coleman Henry. He died June 22, 1989 and is buried in Lakeview Cemetery, Spirit Lake, IA.
Source: ancestry.com
