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Amarillo Globe News 2 May 1997

H.R. Helms

GOODWELL, Okla. - H.R. Helms, 74, died Tuesday, April 29, 1997, in 
Albuquerque, N.M.

Services will be at 2 p.m. today in the Living Word Fellowship at Guymon 
with the Rev. Leon Lothman and the Rev. Jim Wiggin officiating. Burial 
will be in Hartville Cemetery by Bunch-Roberts Funeral Home of Guymon.

Mr. Helms was born in Waskom and grew up in Atlanta, Texas. When he was 15 
he traveled the country working odd jobs before joining the Army at age 
17. He served in World War II and received a Purple Heart at Normandy.

After the war, he sold magazines in the West and Northwest before 
returning to the Texas Panhandle, where he worked on farms. He married 
Namona Miller in 1951 at Hardesty, Okla.

Mr. Helms built houses in Guymon. He was a member of Pentecostal Holiness 
Church in Guymon and the church board and was past president of the Full 
Gospel Business Men's Fellowship. He served on many boards and building 
projects in the Guymon area.

Survivors include his wife; two sons, Hue Helms of Goodwell and Howard 
Helms of Austin; three daughters, Linda Servatius of Texaco, N.M., 
Priscilla Helms of Amarillo and Wanda Royce of Floresville; three 
brothers, Nathan Helms of Longview, Glen Helms of Redwater and Everett O. 
Helms of Maud; a sister, Velera Brown of Texarkana; 12 grandchildren; and 
two great-grandchildren.

The family suggests memorials be to the Living Word Fellowship or the 
Pentecostal Holiness Church, both of Guymon. Memorials may be left at 
Bunch-Roberts Funeral Home, Box 1112, Guymon, Okla., 73942.
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