Obituary: Mountjoy: Gallatin Co: 1988

Submitted by Roy Wheeler    email  roydwheeler@prodigy.net

Obituary
Helen Mountjoy
Community Leader

Gallatin County News  January 7, 1988
Submitted by Roy Wheeler- Gallatin Co. Archive TOC

     Mrs. Helen Lillard Mountjoy, 86, died on Friday, December 25th 1988 at
Bethesda Scarlet Oaks Health Center in Cincinnati.  She had made her home 
for many years in the Victorian house she had restored on the Sparta Pike, 
Warsaw.

    Born in Gallatin County, She was the daughter of Cordelia Gardner and 
Charles Keene Lillard. She attended Eastern State Teachers’ College and 
subsequently taught at Carlisle School during her early life. The school 
was located on Montgomery Road near the Carroll County line.

     Mrs. Mountjoy maintained an avid interest in the Gallatin County 
schools and served 24 years on the School Boardd.  During the later years, 
she was elected its chairman.

     Her organizational activities were many and included membership in the 
Gallatin County Historical Society; the Polly Hawkins Craig Chapter, 
Daughters of the American
Revolution; and the Warsaw Woman’s Club, for which she served as president for one
term.  She was a member of the Warsaw Christian Church.

     Her lifelong interest in growing flowers and treess was legendary in 
Warsaw. Many came from far away to view her garden during the spring months 
each year when the dogwood was in bloom. She was active in restoring the Old 
Cemetery in Lower Warsaw. 

     She was preceded in death by her husband, James Edward Mountjoy, Jr., 
who died in 1952.

     Survivors include a daughter, Mary Payne Germanson of Memphis Tennessee;
a son, James E. Mountjoy, of Cincinnati; four granddaughters and two 
great-grandsons. Five sisters and brothers also preceded her in death.

     Services were held Tuesday, December 29th, at the Carlton-Lowder 
Funeral Home with Rdev. Ron Zorn officiating. Burial was at Warsaw Cemetery.
Paulbearers for Mrs. Mountjoy were Seibert Craig, Warsaw; C. William McDanell,
Owenton; Kenneth McDanell, Owensboro; Joseph K. Lucas and Russel Horn, 
Covington; and James G. Germasnson, Memphis, Tennessee.

 The family suggest memorials to the Warsaw Christian Church.

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