Service Set for Bryan Clifton McHenry

A memorial service will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Chapel of the Sam Houston Memorial Funeral Home for Bryan Clifton McHenry. Memorial condolences may be made online.

McHenry, a lecturer in the English department at Sam Houston State University, was found in his office about 9 p.m. Monday, unconscious and not breathing. He was pronounced dead at 10:17 p.m. by Justice of the Peace James Mature.

Kevin Morris, assistant director of the SHSU campus police department, said that officer Alan Plunkett went to the Evans Building and found McHenry after he was summoned by a custodial worker.

Morris said that an "unattended death" investigation is being conducted, but foul play is not suspected.

An autopsy was ordered by Judge Mature and is being conducted by the Dallas County Medical Examiner's Office.

McHenry, 52, was from Wyoming. He first came to Sam Houston State as a student in 1973, earned his bachelor's degree in criminal justice in 1996, and his master's in English in 1998. He was a full time teacher in the Conroe school district, and taught two evening classes at SHSU.

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SHSU Media Contact: Frank Krystyniak
Aug. 2, 2006
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