1907
Helen
2016
Helen Fender
September 22, 1907 — November 1, 2016
Helen Irene Fender, 109 years young, passed away on November 1, 2016, in New Bloomfield, MO.
A funeral service will be held on Friday, Nov. 4, at 2 p.m., at Carson-Speaks Chapel, 1501 W. Lexington Ave., Independence, MO. Family will receive friends an hour prior to the service at the chapel. She will be laid to rest in Mound Grove Cemetery directly following the service.
Helen was born on September 22, 1907, in Independence, MO, the only child of Joseph Laurence Layton and Zella Marvie White Layton. She graduated from Graceland College with aspirations to become a schoolteacher. She married George Edmund Fender on June 17, 1934; he preceded her in death on July 30, 1986, after 52 happy years of marriage and five beautiful children. Helen was raised a city girl, but easily adapted to the country life with George and her children. She learned how to milk cows to make butter and cheese, raise chickens, and can goods from the garden. The wood-burning stove was the center of the home, and Helen was a master of cooking delicious meals for her family. Her Sunday pot roast dinners were eagerly anticipated, and quickly devoured. At Christmastime, her “penny candies” were the children’s favorite. Helen was a talented painter and artist, as well as seamstress, and made clothes for her children as well as quilts and dolls.
Helen was a truly remarkable woman. She saw her country change before her eyes. As an infant, she began noticing strange new machines called automobiles sputter down the streets. She was a small child when news broke of the First World War and the sinking of the Titanic. She survived the influenza pandemic of 1918, when so many others did not. She was a teenager when the Suffragette movement solidified not only her right, but all women’s right, to vote… and all these events occurred before she reached her twenties! She was independent and energetic, and maintained a positive outlook on life. She had an deep, abiding relationship in God, which she instilled to her children.
Helen was preceded in death by her husband, parents, daughter, Nancy, and sons-in-law, Martin and Donald.
She is survived by her children: Larry Fender (Norma), Irene Young (David), Laura Cartmill-Cooley, and Mary Bailey; son-in-law, Charles Best; 13 grandchildren; 30 great-grandchildren; and 19 great-great-grandchildren.
Contributions may be made to Hospice Compassus, and many thanks to their wonderful staff for taking care of Helen.
Online condolences may be expressed at www.speakschapel.com (Arrangements: Carson-Speaks Chapel 816-252-7900)
A funeral service will be held on Friday, Nov. 4, at 2 p.m., at Carson-Speaks Chapel, 1501 W. Lexington Ave., Independence, MO. Family will receive friends an hour prior to the service at the chapel. She will be laid to rest in Mound Grove Cemetery directly following the service.
Helen was born on September 22, 1907, in Independence, MO, the only child of Joseph Laurence Layton and Zella Marvie White Layton. She graduated from Graceland College with aspirations to become a schoolteacher. She married George Edmund Fender on June 17, 1934; he preceded her in death on July 30, 1986, after 52 happy years of marriage and five beautiful children. Helen was raised a city girl, but easily adapted to the country life with George and her children. She learned how to milk cows to make butter and cheese, raise chickens, and can goods from the garden. The wood-burning stove was the center of the home, and Helen was a master of cooking delicious meals for her family. Her Sunday pot roast dinners were eagerly anticipated, and quickly devoured. At Christmastime, her “penny candies” were the children’s favorite. Helen was a talented painter and artist, as well as seamstress, and made clothes for her children as well as quilts and dolls.
Helen was a truly remarkable woman. She saw her country change before her eyes. As an infant, she began noticing strange new machines called automobiles sputter down the streets. She was a small child when news broke of the First World War and the sinking of the Titanic. She survived the influenza pandemic of 1918, when so many others did not. She was a teenager when the Suffragette movement solidified not only her right, but all women’s right, to vote… and all these events occurred before she reached her twenties! She was independent and energetic, and maintained a positive outlook on life. She had an deep, abiding relationship in God, which she instilled to her children.
Helen was preceded in death by her husband, parents, daughter, Nancy, and sons-in-law, Martin and Donald.
She is survived by her children: Larry Fender (Norma), Irene Young (David), Laura Cartmill-Cooley, and Mary Bailey; son-in-law, Charles Best; 13 grandchildren; 30 great-grandchildren; and 19 great-great-grandchildren.
Contributions may be made to Hospice Compassus, and many thanks to their wonderful staff for taking care of Helen.
Online condolences may be expressed at www.speakschapel.com (Arrangements: Carson-Speaks Chapel 816-252-7900)
To order memorial trees or send flowers to the family in memory of Helen Fender, please visit our flower store.
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