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Submitted By: Ann Weber

Helen E. (Ross) Neighbors

January 26, 1937 ~ May 16, 2017

Helen Eileen Ross Neighbors, wife of Chalmers B. "Corky" Neighbors, passed away at 2:15 AM, May 16, 2017. She was born in Medicine Lodge, KS on the 26th of January 2017 to Pearl and Russell Ross, one of five children (all deceased).

She and her husband met in Wichita, KS, in 1953 and were married in Ft. Smith, AR on the 19th of June 1954. They were married 63 years, 10 months, and 27 days. They had nine children. James, Shelly, Gaye, Lina, Donald "Tommy", Marvin "Rusty", Leslie, and Ginger, with 22 grandchildren and 29 great-grandchildren.

She will be cremated and her ashes will be placed in a family plot next to her oldest son, James. The ceremony will be private for family and close friends at a later date. She was a past member of Comanche County Homemakers Extension Club and the Lawton-Fort Sill Stamp Club. When the children were in school, she was active in the PTA and in the Girls and Boys Scouts of America. Her main hobby was sewing and making quilts. She was a soldier's wife and a loving and caring mother. She is and will always be sorely missed.

The family asks in lieu of flowers, please, donate to the Rathgeber House, 1615 12th Street, Wichita Falls, TX 76301, for all they have done for the family.

Cremation services have been entrusted to Whinery-Huddleston Funeral Service.

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