Funeral services
for Mrs. Julia Killough Helms of Rt. 2, Matthews who died early yesterday
morning in a local hospital after several months' declining health, will
be held today at 2 p. m. at Pleasant: Plains Baptist Church.
The Rev. J.
A. Hudson, the pastor and Dr. Q. N. Honeycutt of Indian Trail Presbyterian
Church will officiate. Burial will be in the church cemetery, and nephews
of Mrs. Helms will serve as active pallbearers. The body will be taken
from McEwen Funeral Home to the residence this morning at 11 o'clock and
to the church at I p. m. Officers of Pleasant Plains Baptist Church
will be honorary pall bearers.
Mrs. Helms was born
Jan. 12,1884, in Union County the daughter of the late Robert R and Martha
Secrest Deese. She was an active member of the Pleasant Plains Baptist
Church for 45 years. Surving Mrs Helms are her husband E. Grady Helms;
two daughters, Mrs. J.C. Arant
of Pageland SC, and Mrs. J. Ray Crooke
of Charlotte; seven sons A.G. Killiough, C. B. Killough, Ray Killough and
L. E. Killough of Charlotte, C. P. Killough of Indian Trail, W. J. Killough
of Raleigh, and Ney Killough of Wadesboro; 18 greatgrandchildren; and four
brothers, Arthur T Deese, Joe Deese, Claude Deese, and Parse Deese, all
of Rt. Matthews NC
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