Helen Fitzwater

HELEN VERNIEL FITZWATER OF POTOSI, MISSOURI WAS BORN AT POTOSI MISSOURI ON JANUARY 1, 1935. SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF THE LATE GROVER CLEVELAND AND ALICE NANCY (TROKEY) BROWN. HELEN DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT THE ST. JOSEPH HOSPITAL IN ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI ON OCTOBER 13, 2002 HAVING REACHED THE AGE OF SIXTY SEVEN YEARS, NINE MONTHS, AND TWELVE DAYS.
SHE IS SURVIVED BY FOUR DAUGHTERS, PATRICIA ELAINE FULLER AND HUSBAND ALLEN OF MINERAL POINT, MISSOURI, ANGELA RAE FITZWATER OF DESLOGE, MISSOURI, KIMBERLY RANEE HODGES AND HUSBAND MIKE OF ST. CHARLES, MISSOURI, AND NANCY SELENA AYERS AND HUSBAND BRYON OF CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE, FIVE SONS, ERWIN "DALE" FITZWATER OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, GARLAND EDWARD FITZWATER OF POTOSI, MISSOURI, PAUL DEWAYNE FITZWATER AND WIFE SANDY OF POTOSI, MISSOURI, RANDALL "JOE" FITZWATER OF POTOSI, MISSOURI, TERRY LYNN "PEE WEE" FITZWATER AND WIFE BRANDI OF POTOSI, MISSOURI, TWO STEP DAUGHTERS, RUTH PRUITT AND HUSBAND RON OF POTOSI, MISSOURI AND BRENDA HOLST OF CONROE, TEXAS, ONE STEP SON, DENNIS FITZWATER AND WIFE GAIL OF MOSCOW MILLS, MISSOURI, THIRTY TWO GRANDCHILDREN AND FOUR GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. SISTER-IN-LAW AND VERY SPECIAL FRIEND, DORIS FITZWATER OF POTOSI, MISSOURI, FRIEND, BARBARA WIDEMAN OF POTOSI, MISSOURI, FRIEND, MACKIE RULO OF POTOSI, MISSOURI, FRIEND, LAWANDA RIDDLE "SCHOOCHY" OF POTOSI, MISSOURI, FRIEND, PAT "BODIMER" PORTELL, FRIEND, PEGGY KESSELRING AND THREE SISTERS-IN-LAW, REGINA BROWN OF OLD MINES, DOROTHY PETERS OF COLUMBIA, MISSOURI AND JEWEL BROWN OF MINERAL POINT, MISSOURI. IN ADDITION TO HER PARENTS SHE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY ONE INFANT SON, THREE BROTHERS, ROBERT BROWN, CLARENCE PETERS AND ROY BROWN, ONE GRANDDAUGHTER, STEPHANIE SUE NEFF.
HELEN ENJOYED RIDING AROUND WITH FAMILY AND SPENDING TIME WITH HER GRANDCHILDREN. SHE LIKED WATCHING ST. LOUIS CARDINALS BASEBALL. SHE KNEW HER LORD AND LISTENED TO GOSPEL MUSIC. SHE WILL BE MISSED BY ALL WHO WERE PRIVILEGED TO KNOW HER.
VISITATION WAS HELD FROM 5:00 PM TO 9:00 PM ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2002 AT THE MOORE FUNERAL HOME IN POTOSI, AND 9:30 AM TO 11:00 AM ON WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2002 AT THE POTOSI SOUTHERN BAPTIST CHURCH.
FUNERAL SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED 11:00 AM ON WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2002 AT THE POTOSI SOUTHERN BAPTIST CHURCH WITH ELDER LEONARD COMPTON AND REVEREND JOHN EDWARDS OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN THE SUNSET HILL CEMETERY UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MOORE FUNERAL HOME.
SERVING AS PALLBEARERS WERE PAUL FITZWATER, DALE FITZWATER, TERRY FITZWATER, MIKE HODGES, ALAN FULLER, EUGENE NEFF, MATT COFFMAN AND BRYON AYERS.