Obituaries: Helen Spillers, 1952, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: October 23, 1952 Winn Parish Enterprise

Funeral Held Wednesday For Helen Spillers

Funeral services for Helen Spillers, 21, were held Wednesday at 3 p.m. at Mt.
Zion Church.  She died Friday, October 17, in Chicago, Ill, where she had been
employed for about one month.

The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Spillers of Atlanta, she was a graduate of
Atlanta High School.  Until moving to Chicago recently, she had been employed
with a Houston, Texas finance company.  She died of a heart ailment caused by
rheumatic fever.

Services at Mt. Zion were conducted by Rev. Walker of the Atlanta Baptist
Church and Rev. Louis B. Williams.

Survivors are her parents, W. P. Spillers and Mrs. Ruth Spillers,
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Spillers of Atlanta; two sisters, Mrs.
Beverley Phipps of Houston, Texas and Rita Spillers of Chicago; two brothers,
Allen of Baytown, Texas and Billy of Chicago; and several aunts, uncles, and
other relatives.

Pallbearers were her classmates of the Atlanta school.