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Helen Carpenter Sept. 9, 1921 - Feb. 27, 2012 Helen Louise Helms Carpenter, 90, Lewisville, died Monday, February 27, 2012, at Lexington Health Care. The funeral will be 2:00 p.m. Friday, March 2, 2012, at First Pentecostal Holiness Church, where she was a member, with the Rev. Wayne Knight officiating. Burial will follow in Forest Hill Memorial Park. The family will receive friends from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at Davidson Funeral Home and other times at the home, 115 Oak Run Court, Lewisville. Mrs. Carpenter was born September 9, 1921, in Cabarrus County, to Calvin Ellis Helms and Edna Bell Furr Helms. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her loving husband of 66 years who she helped serve in various churches, Rev. Collie Clyde Carpenter. Surviving are sons, Jimmie Carpenter and wife, Peggy, of Charlotte, and John Carpenter of Winston-Salem; daughters, Marilyn Berrier, Dianne Faulkner, both of Lewisville, and Kay Byerley and husband, Dwayne of Lexington; 14 grandchildren, 23 great-grandchildren; brother, Calvin Helms and wife, Sarah, of Concord; and sisters, Betty Baggarly, Margie Walker and husband, Bobby Joe, and Elsie Walker and husband, Jimmy, all of Concord. Online condolences may be made at www.davidsonfuneralhome.net.
Published in Winston-Salem Journal on February 29, 2012