Helen L. ROWE

Helen L. Rowe, 93, homemaker, of Wichita, KS, died Sunday afternoon, March 5, 2006, at Via Christi Regional Medical Center St. Joseph Campus in Wichita.
Helen was born Septmber23, 1912, on a farm in Northwest Missouri, to Arway Bower and Pearl (Stalcup) Threlkeld, the third of four girls. She loved the country and enjoyed fishing, swimming, and ice skating. She like to help her dad and learned to milk and feed the live stock, plow corn, rake hay, shock wheat and oats, and do anything that needed doing. She liked to ride her dads saddle horse.
She went to a country school and three different high schools. Her junior year she played on the basketball team that won the Missouri state championship.
She attended the University of Missouri two years while the family lived in Columbia.  She taught school seven years and did many things to earn money. She fed hogs and sold hog feed and made enough money to have a vacation in the Ozarks.
In 1941, she married Samuel Rowe, a graduate of agriculture from the University of Missouri. He preceded her in death in 1991.
Helen joined church when she was 12 years old and worked at many positions in the church. She also liked to help people less fortunate than her and call on shut-ins. The highlight of her life was a two week visit to a mission in Haiti. She was a member of First Baptist in Wellington since 1965.
Survivors include her sons, David S. Rowe and his wife Marcia of Pleasanton, CA, Bruce F. Rowe and his wife Karen of Wellington, KS; a sister Nelle Reed of Amarillo, TX; grandchildren, Colette Rowe of Berkley, CA, Jared Rowe of San Francisco, CA and Nathan Rowe of Wellington, KS.
Services for Helen will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, March 9, at the First Baptist Church in Wellington, KS. Cremation has taken place and there will be no visitation.
Graveside services for Helen be at 11:00 a.m., Saturday, March 11, at Mount Moriah Cemetery, in Paris. The family will receive and greet friends following the graveside service at Lake Village Motel in Paris.
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Contributed by Don Duvall
Source: Monroe County Appeal, March 9, 2006