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HENRY H. SOULEN
  BRUNSWICK—Henry H. Soulen, of Beech Drive, and formerly of Stonington-Deer Isle, Maine, died May 27, 2009, at a Brunswick hospital.
He was born in Yeadon, Pa., on March 30, 1915, a son of Henry J. and Gertrude Biesel Soulen.
He received a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business in 1938.
During World War II, he was a pilot in the U.S. Army Air Corps. He served with the occupation forces in Japan and Okinawa, landing in Japan with the first forces after the war.
He married Harriet E. Juntilla on September 17, 1960, in Cranford, N.J.
He worked for the Department of State as an information officer posted in Iraq and then worked in the film distribution industry in New York. He then worked for the Department of Defense as an information and education specialist, where he served in Japan for nine years and then at Lakeland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas.
He had a lifelong passion for photography and was a skilled photographer. During his travels, he would capture the local culture by photographing the people and landscape.
From his youth he vacationed and later lived seasonally in Stonington, where he loved the people, way of life and natural surroundings.
He is survived by his wife of 49 years; a son, Henry Jon Soulen, and his wife, Suzanne, of Langhorne, Pa.; six grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Services will be private.
Memorial donations may be made to People Plus, a senior center, 6 Noble St., Brunswick, ME 04011.
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