To request a copy of this photo for your own personal use, please contact our state coordinator. If you are not a family member or the original photographer — please refrain from copying or distributing this photo to other websites.
Thank you for visiting the Missouri Gravestone Photo Project. On this site you can upload gravestone photos, locate ancestors and perform genealogy research. If you have a relative buried in Missouri, we encourage you to upload a digital image using our Submit a Photo page. Contributing to this genealogy archive helps family historians and genealogy researchers locate their relatives and complete their family tree.
Submitted: 2/26/15 • Approved: 9/8/24 • Last Updated: 9/11/24 • R765476-G765476-S3
Wayne
Oct 1, 1914
Mar 21, 2000
Son of Earl & Belle (Rader) Mitchell
Helen
Nov 6, 1916 Willow Springs, Howell, MO
Jan 29, 2008 West Plains, Howell, MO
Helen Frances Mitchell, 91, West Plains, MO, died Jan. 29, 2008, at Ozarks Medical Center. She was born Nov. 6, 1916 in Willow Springs, MO, to Ben H. and Docia Cleo Hight Fair.
She graduated from Willow Springs High School, and on May 30, 1936 was married at West Plains, MO, to Wayne Alfred Mitchell, who preceded her in death March 21, 2000.
Mrs. Mitchell had worked at Milstead's Dress Shop and before her retirement was employed with the Missouri Division of Employment Security.
She and Wayne loved square dancing, bowling and traveling. She was a great cook and seamstress and enjoyed growing flowers. Of all her activities, her family and grandchildren were what she enjoyed the most.
Mrs. Mitchell was an active member of the First Christian Church, West Plains, for many years.
She is survived by two children, Dale Mitchell, and wife, Thelma, West Plains, MO; and Linda Duggan, and husband, Mike, Plano, TX; four grandchildren, Stacy Coiner, and husband, Jeff; Ken Duggan, and fiancee, Ann Mears; Marlon Duggan, and wife, Stacia; and Michelle Thomas, and husband, Chuck; seven great-grandchildren, Tanner, Jordan, Trevor, Cassidy, Mitchell, Ty and Misty; one brother, Chick Fair; one sister, Juanita "Tooter" Kirk; and many nieces and nephews.
Her parents; husband; granddaughter, Denise; three brothers; and one sister preceded her in death.
Visitation will be Friday, at Robertson-Drago Funeral Home. Funeral services will be Feb. 2, 2008 in the Rose Chapel, Robertson-Drago Funeral Home. Burial will be at Howell Memorial Park Cemetery.
[West Plains Daily Quill, Feb 1, 2008]
Contributed on 2/26/15 by mjrwag
Email This Contributor
Suggest a Correction
Record #: 765476