Published: July 02, 2009 02:09 pm      

Carl E. “Lucky” Senior

Carl E. ‘Lucky’ Senior, 87; WWII Army veteran and former POW

Funeral services for Carl E. “Lucky” Senior, 87, of Sellersburg, will be at 10 a.m. Friday, July 3, at Kraft Funeral Service, Charlestown Road Chapel, New Albany, with burial in Kraft-Graceland Memorial Park. He died Wednesday, July 1, 2009, at his residence in Sellersburg.

He was an Army veteran with the 101st Airborne. During World War II and was a POW in Germany. He retired from both the United States Army and Fort Knox. He was a lifetime member of VFW Post 3281 in New Albany and a member of the American Legion Bonnie Sloan Post 28 in New Albany.

Survivors include his wife of 44 years, Norma D. Senior; sons, Michael R. Foley, of Austin and Steven L. Foley and his wife, Donna, of Memphis; brother, Frank E. Senior, of Louisville; sister, Alice M Eckert, of Floyds Knobs; five grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

Visitation will be at the funeral home from 3 to 8 p.m. today

The family requests that expressions of sympathy take the form of contributions to Hosparus of Southern Indiana.