Virginia legislators, Warren County officials, Virginia State Police Association, state and local law enforcement, family, friends and Boy Scouts of past and present gathered this week at the Front Royal Golf Club to ceremoniously dedicate an Interstate 66 overpass in memory of slain Virginia State Police Trooper Harry Lee Henderson.
Through the efforts of Virginia Senator Mark D. Obenshain and co-patron Senator John A. Cosgrove, the Virginia State Police Association and the Warren County Board of Supervisors, the I-66 bridge in Warren County at mile marker 10 (crossing over Morgan Ford Road) has been designated as the Trooper Harry Lee Henderson Memorial Bridge.
Trooper Henderson, 43, was struck and killed by a tractor-trailer on March 17, 1987, on Interstate 66 in Warren County after he had stopped a motorist for a violation.
Harry Lee Henderson was a native of Staunton, Va. After graduating from Wilson Memorial High School in Fishersville, he earned an accounting degree from Valley Vocational Technical School, also in Fishersville. He joined State Police in 1973 and graduated as a member of the 57th Basic Session, with his first patrol assignment in Front Royal.
A 14-year state police veteran, who also served his community as a Boy Scout Scoutmaster for 22 years, Henderson had been widowed prior to his death and was survived at the time by his son, 17, and daughter, 11, as well as his mother and two brothers.
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