Funeral services will be conducted 2:00 p.m. Monday at Lake Road Baptist Church near Union City. Brother Chip Davis and Brother Mickey Basham will officiate. Burial will follow in Mt. Manuel Cemetery.

The family will receive friends at Lake Road Baptist Church from 5:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. Sunday and from 12:00 p.m. until the hour of services Monday.

Pallbearers will be Matt Snow, Christian Snow, Bo Faulkner, Chuck Doughten, David Long and Robert McCullough.

Honorary pallbearers will be Craig Menees, Robert Myers, Mickey Bowers and members of Lake Road Baptist Church.

Edmaiston-Mosley Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Memorial contributions may take the form of donations to Lake Road Baptist Church, 1366 East Highway 22, Union City, Tn. 38261, Mt. Manuel Cemetery Association, 1512 Troy Hickman Road, Union City, Tn. 38261 or Hometown Walk of Hope, P.O. Box 482, Union City, Tn. 38281.

He was born September 9, 1955, in St. Louis, Missouri, son of James and Diane (Basham) Henson of Union City. Ricky was an American Civil War enthusiast and an avid hunter and fisherman. He had been a writer for Southern Back Roads Magazine and the Ozark Mountaineer. He was the author of Just Plain Brady a book about folklore that surrounds Reelfoot Lake. Ricky was a member of Lake Road Baptist Church.

Ricky is also survived by his sister, Kathy Menees; his niece and her husband, Angie and Matt Snow; his nephew, Craig Menees; his great nephew and great niece, Christian Snow and Nicole Snow; and a special aunt, Judy Summers all of Union City.

He was preceded in death by his brother, Rodney Henson; and his grandparents, Cleo "Red" and Laverne Basham and Brady and Iva Henson.

I'm Going Home

This is the last day of the last month of the final year, it has arrived on life's calendar yet I have nothing to fear. In time leaves will wither and fall beneath the tree, I have God's promise that winter will not come for me.

Tomorrow is unlike today that comes, passes then is gone, tomorrow is that day I have been waiting for so long. I am happy and at peace as I sit in my favorite chair, looking for the Angel of Death of whom I am ready to bear.

I soon will stand at the station with my ticket in hand, waiting for the conductor who'll show me the Promised Land. I am anxious and am ready, waiting for that final hour, in time I will be transported by that heavenly power.

The journey is a swift one; there is now no such thing as time, just within an instant the city of gold I'll find. Here my travels will be over for this will be my home, it is here that you will find me singing before the throne.

A shadow is now upon me, it covers me like a shroud, my thoughts are of my savior and if I've made him proud. Come with me upon this journey to see this wonderful place, Salvation will give you passage, your ticket has been bought with grace.

Rick Henson


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