Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Helms, Durward W., 1987 

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DURWARD WILBURN HELMS

   FRANKLIN - Durward Wilburn Helms, 55, of the 3100 block of N. High St. 
extended, a lab director, died Sept. 28, in a hospital.

   Mr. Helms, a native of Round Mountain, Ala., was a lab director with the 
State Department of Agriculture at the Regional Regulatory Lab, Ivor.  He was 
an Air Force staff sergeant during the Korean War, and a graduate of Palmer 
School of Chiropractic, Davenport, Iowa.  He was a member of National 
Biological Association, Defenders of Wildlife, Cousteau Society, Make Today 
Count Society for the Terminally Ill and the Virginia Photographer’s 
Association.  He was a Protestant.

   Survivors include his wife, Glenda W. Helms; two sons, Peter Whitley Helms 
and Alan Keith Helms, both of Franklin; his mother, Venice E. Helms of Centre, 
Ala.; four sisters, Billie Sue White of Centre, Mary Beth Webb of 
Fayetteville, Ga., Gail Hale of Troy, Ala., and Adet Stephens of Huntsville, 
Ala.; two brothers, Jerry Helms of Elkins, W.Va. and Randy Helms of Beaufort, 
S.C.

   Graveside services were conducted Wednesday in Poplar Spring Cemetery by 
the Rev. John Siegle.


[Durward Wilburn HELMS, of Franklin, Air Force veteran of the Korean War, 
 VA Department of Agriculture Regional Regulatory Lab director, Ivor, 
 Round Mountain, AL native, d. 28 Sep 1987, age 55, 
 interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 3, Plot 169B*), Franklin, 
    30 Sep 1987, 
 "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Oct. 1, 1987, p. 7A] 

[*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project,
     Poplar Spring list:
 http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar3.txt] 

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