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                           OA Online Obituaries.
                                      
                               April 26, 2000
                                      
                          Permian Basin Obituaries
                                      
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                           Helen Virginia Stowe Muns
                                      
    ODESSA — Helen Muns, 88, passed away Monday, April 24, 2000, at
                          Medical Center Hospital.
                                      
      Memorial services will be held 11:00 a.m. Wednesday at the First
      Presbyterian Church with Dr. Philip McClarty officiating. Family
     visitation will be between 4 and 6 p.m. Tuesday at Sunset Memorial
                               Funeral Home.
                                      
   Helen Muns was born July 31, 1911, in Ft. Dodge, Iowa, to Judge Herman
   Wilmer and Beulah Blagden Stowe. She married Ralph Everett Muns August
    23, 1937, in Ft. Dodge and moved to Odessa in 1947 from Pittsburgh,
                                    Pa.
                                      
    Helen was a member of the First Presbyterian Church where she served
   as President of the Women of the Church and taught Adult Sunday School
   for over twenty-five years. She was a member of Chapter BT P.E.O., The
   Odessa Study Club and was a Past Regent of the Nathaniel Davis Chapter
     of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She was a graduate of
    Northwestern University. Following graduation she worked in New York
                           City for seven years.
                                      
   She is survived by her husband Ralph of 62 years; two daughters, Nancy
      Helen Leonard and husband, Gary of Abilene; Susan Lee Parker and
   husband, Phil of Odessa; three sons, Roger Edward and wife, Mary Ethel
   of Brandon, MS, Bruce Allen of Odessa, and Ronald James and wife, Lee
   of Colorado Springs, CO; one sister, Mary Louise Heston of Pittsburgh,
   PA; two sisters-in-law, Bernadene Stowe of Chicago, IL; Dorothy Stowe
   of Omaha, NE; ten grandchildren, David Barton Leonard and wife, Vivian
   of Abilene; Laura Kathryn Leonard Weeks and husband, Capt. Patrick of
    Goose Creek, SC; JoEllen Kaye Parker Aldridge and husband, Lance of
   Addison, TX; Pamela Cox Parker of Los Angeles, CA; Philip Lind Parker,
    Jr., of Waco; Judith Stowe Muns Day and husband, Michael of Oxford,
      OH; Edward Dotson Muns and wife, Chris Foster of Louisville, KY;
     Robert Andrew Muns and wife, Natalia of Caracas, Venezuela, Emily
   Kristin Muns of Ft. Myers, FL; Katherine Ann Muns of Chicago, IL; four
   great-grandchildren, Danielle and Aaron Leonard of Abilene, and twins,
                Allison and Taylor Weeks of Goose Creek, SC.
                                      
     Helen was preceded in death by her parents; one son, John Charles
     Muns; three brothers, Wilmer Blagden Stowe, Ronald Lawrence Stowe,
     Douglas Robert Stowe; two sisters, Blanche Allene Muns, and Beulah
                              Blagden Collins.
                                      
        Family requests memorial contributions be made to the First
     Presbyterian Church, the local Alzheimer’s Association or the
                          charity of your choice.
                                      
   Honorary pallbearers will be Gene Clark, Guy Elliott, Harry Mitchell,
      Gene Schneider, Bernie Sedate, Ed Tucker, Don Williams, and John
                                  Willis.
                                      
                 Services entrusted to Sunset Funeral Home.
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