'Always a Viking' — Beloved Utah County wrestling coach and Hall-of-Famer Darold Henry laid to rest
Lining the street in front of the Pleasant Grove High School stood friends and community members — the residue of a life well-lived.Ryan Newman, a history teacher at Pleasant Grove High School, was once Henry's student and athlete.Henry held many titles: Husband, father, wrestler, firefighter, teacher, and man of faith. But there was one title that, perhaps, Henry was most known as: Coach.Henry was the head wrestling coach and assistant football coach at Pleasant Grove High School.
Eventually, Henry's father remarried and was able to bring him and his brothers home to Nebraska, where he excelled in wrestling.Henry received wrestling scholarships to many different colleges but ended up choosing to go to Brigham Young University."The boys he coached taught him as much as he taught them," said Belva.
Henry refereed 33 NCAA Wrestling Championship Finals and was also an alternate for the 1968 U.S. Olympic Wrestling Team."He coached all four of our older boys in wrestling," said Evans."Everyone who has ever had contact with him, myself included, felt loved by him.” As the years went by, Coach Henry went on to serve as a firefighter with the Pleasant Grove Fire Department and eventually served as a captain.
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