Henry "Alex" Alexander Redfern

Graveside service for Henry Alexander "Alex" Redfern, 87, will be conducted 2:00 p.m. Friday at St. James Lutheran Church Cemetery Summit with Rev. Gina Metze officiating. The family will receive friends from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Thursday at Barr-Price Funeral Home and Crematorium, Historic B-L Chapel. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made Agape Hospice House 128 Library Hill Lane Lexington, SC 29072 or Alzheimer's Associations 4124 Clemson Blvd., Suite L, Anderson, SC 29621.

  Mr. Redfern passed away Monday, April 16, 2018. Henry also known to friends and family as "Alex" was born in Chesterfield County and grew up in Fairview. Mr. Redfern was the son of the late Henry David and Maude Dean Roberson Redfern and step-mother Eva Hite Redfern. He attended Fairview High School where at the age of 17, joined the US Navy. After a very short hitch in the Navy he was honorably discharged after his only living brother was killed in Germany during WWII.

  In July of 1954, he married his sweetheart, Marion Elizabeth Jenkins of Rison, Maryland. She is also known to friends and family as "Sally", later they moved to Leesville, SC where they had three children: Cynthia "Cindy" R. (Jeffry-deceased) Berry, David "Sandy" A. (Tracy) Redfern, and Donnie L. (Susan-deceased) Redfern; 7 grandchildren; 7 great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.

  Henry is a retired truck driver of over 40 years and is known to his fellow truckers as "Smoky". He was awarded numerous safe driver awards through the years only having one very minor accident in those 40 years. He was an avid farmer most of his life until health issues prevented him from getting in the field. After he retired from trucking he learned to make baskets from his long time neighbor by cutting down oak trees, stripping them down, and weaving a basket out of them. He sold many homemade baskets to friends and family around the Leesville community.

 He was predeceased by a brother, William D. Redfern; step-brother, Alfred D. Hite; and sisters, Caroline Derrick, Henrietta Watkins, and Roberta Miller.

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