Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....McCoy, Helen Vilod (Tabor) June 3, 2018 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Pat Currigan currigan1932@comcast.net May 3, 2020, 10:55 am Ionia Sentinel Standard-Wed. June 6, 2018 Helen Vilod McCoy, age 94, of Ionia., MI, passed away June 3, 2018. She was born on November 10, 1923, in East Oxford Township Ontario, Canada, the daughter of Carl Ruddell and Henrietta (Spicer) Tabor. She graduated Carson City High School, class of 1941. She was employed as a beauty operator after earning her diploma from La Parent Academy of Beauty, Grand Rapids, Mi., in 1942. Helen married Robert McCoy, both aged 19, on March 29, 1943, in Lowell, Mi.. After joining Lincoln Avenue Baptist Church in 1960, she remained a member for 58 years until the present. She served as Sunday School teacher there for 40 years. Surviving Helen are her son, Carl Richard (Virginia) McCoy of Grosse Pointe Woods; daughter-in-laws, Marcia McCoy (Jim Jones) of Ionia and Donna McCoy of Barryton; grandsons Daniel Martin (Michelle) McCoy of Ionia and Marc Robert (Tami) McCoy of Ionia; great-grandchildren, Kylie Michelle, Daniel Jack, Matthew Knight, Lucas Danny and Ashlyn Dormer. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, Robert, sons, Danny Eugene, James Carl and sister, Mary Tabor Fields Funeral services will be held at Lincoln Avenue Baptist church on Thursday, June 7, at 2 pm with Pastor David Iseminger II officiating. A visitation will be 1-2 pm at the church Interment Easton Cemetery. In lieu of flowers those wishing may made memorial contributions to Lincoln Avenue Baptist church or a charity of your choice in Helen's memory. Arrangements in care of Lake funeral Home of Ionia. online condolences may be made at lakefuneralhomes.com File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/m/mccoy36284nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 2.2 Kb