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Henry Rudolph Stancil

• Born: Sept. 17, 1924 Kenly, Johnston County, NC
• Died: Dec. 4, 1993 Clifton Forge, VA
• Buried: Alleghany Memorial Park, Low Moor, Alleghany, VA
• Married: Dorothy "Dot" Ann Perry on July 22, 1950, in Bristol, TN

Henry Rudolph Stancil was born Sept. 17, 1924, and died Dec. 4, 1993. He married Dorothy "Dot" Ann Crouch on July 22, 1950, in Bristol, TN.
Henry's children with Dot Crouch Stancil
Gary Rudolph Stancil Sept. 14, 1951 Roanoke, VA-April 19, 2024 Christiansburg, VA
Stephen "Steve" Jerome Stancil

Henry "Doc" Rudolph Stancil, son of Oscar and Mamie Hocutt Stancil, was born Sept. 17, 1924, in Kenly, Johnston County, North Carolina.

Doc graduated from Glendale High School in Kenly, North Carolina, in 1943. He attended Antioch Baptist Church as long as he lived at home. When he got on his own, he seldom attended church.

Doc registered for the draft on April 27, 1942, in Johnston County, North Carolina. He was 18 years old at the time and listed his mother, Mamie Hocutt Stancil, as his contact person.

Doc listed his job as a farmer for his mother at the time of his registration.

The war was raging when he joined the Navy.

He served in the U.S. Navy from September 15, 1944, during World War II.

Henry received training in Newport, Rhode Island, at the same time his brother James Orville Stancil was there with the Marines.

Henry was stationed aboard a patrol torpedo boat in the Pacific theater. He went to the Philippines. He was discharged March 12, 1946.

After the war, he met Dorothy "Dot" Ann Crouch while she was attending Lewis-Gate Hospital School of Nursing. She trained at Dorothy Dix Psychiatric Hospital in Raleigh, North Carolina. This facility was devoted to the treatment of mental illness and was named after the famous social reformer, Dorothea Dix.

Dot, the daughter of Clyde S. and Mary Crouch, was born Nov. 9, 1929, in Amsterdam, Botetourt, Virginia.

Dorothy's roommate was dating Doc and was going to be out of town the next weekend and asked Dorothy to take care of him. Before long, they were dating and fell in love.

The nursing school prohibited marriage. Doc and Dot were driven up to Tennessee and secretly got married on July 22, 1950, in Bristol, Tennessee.

They kept the marriage secret until October 1951 when Dorothy graduated from nursing school.

Henry and Dot had two sons, Gary Rudolph Stancil in 1951 and Stephen "Steve" Jerome Stancil in 1954. Gary Rudolph Stancil passed away on April 19, 2024.

Dorothy and Doc had problems in their marriage and separated about 1956. She left North Carolina and took her sons out to California, where they grew up.

Dot worked as a registered nurse at the former Shenandoah Manor nursing home in Clifton Forge. She was a member of the Anata Shrine Guild of the Clifton Forge Shrine Club.

The couple divorced on May 6, 1966, in Staunton, Virginia.

Doc was an excellent salesman and a well-known businessman. He sold insurance for a number of years. In 1972, he teamed up with Jack Kimberlin and bought the 48-acre county landfill from the Irvines. It was named Kim-Stan Landfill. Trash was collected from throughout the county and this included homes, government offices and companies.

Then in the summer of 1988, Jack and Doc had an opportunity to sell the landfill, several apartments and a store for $350,000 to Shelcy Mullins Sr. and Jerry Wharton, of Wise County, Virginia, and Bill Stover and Jim Taylor, of Troy, Michigan.

Mullins and Wharton had operated strip mines in Wise County. Mullins had even been the county sheriff. The new owners had big plans to expand the landfill and make it a regional site. They wanted to take in trash from all over Virginia and even from other states. Soon, trucks were coming from as far away as New York and New Jersey. Amidst the increased traffic and local protests, trash operations ended in 1990 and it was shutdown by the state of Virginia in 1992. The EPA currently considers the landfill a superfund site and undergoes five-year reviews.

Henry then married Davina Dunningham Davidson Perry on Dec. 31, 1966, in Clifton Forge, Virginia.

Davina, a widow, the daughter of David and Gertrude Bradford Davidson, was born Oct. 17, 1926, in Schenectady, New York.

Davina died on March 6, 2015, in Clifton Forge, Virginia. She is cremated.

Dot rejoined Doc's life in 1991. They both treasured the two years they had together before he died.

Henry passed away on December 4, 1993, at the Allenghany Regional Hospital in Clifton Forge, Virginia, and is buried in Alleghany Memorial Park in Low Moor, Alleghany County, Virginia.

Dot died Oct. 31, 2014, in Covington, Virginia, and is buried in Alleghany Memorial Park, Low Moor, Alleghany, Virginia.

— Renn Stancil Hinton, daughter of George Ralph Stancil