Helen Limmer
Helen Lavern Limmer, 96, passed gently away on Friday, Nov. 8, 2024, surrounded by family, friends, caring hospice tea and comfort staff of the Glen Rose Nursing and Rehab Center.
A celebration of life memo-rial service will be held Dec. 14, 2024, at 10 a.m. at Green’s Creek Baptist Church in Dublin. Friends and relatives are invited to join the family at this service.
Helen was born Nov. 24, 1927, to Hulda and Charles John Reich in Carlton at the family home. She was the second youngest of 10 children. She was infant-baptized and confirmed at Aleman Lutheran Church, which the family regularly attended despite the 30mile distance from their home and the difficult means of travel by horseback or wagon.
Family life included daily reading of the Bible by their mother around the dinner table, and Helen carried this daily devotion time throughout her life as well. Raised during the Great Depression years made these times especially hard for a large family living off the land, but hard work, determination and most of all their faith provided the means to get them through these and other challenging times.
Helen attended elementary school at Sunshine School, which was about seven miles away, by walking or shared horseback riding. She graduated from Carlton School in 1945 at the age of 17.
Thereafter, she worked as a telephone company operator in Odessa, where she met and married Harold Limmer on Oct. 25, 1947. They were together for 57 years of marriage before his passing in 2003.
She was a member of Green’s Baptist Church, and she chose adult-baptism at the age of 94.
Over the years, Helen worked at the local sewing factory, baking factory, packing seasonal mistletoe or selling Avon while also helping to run the family farm of livestock, dairy cows and bird farming.
She didn’t shy away from staying busy from early morning hours until dark.
She worked hard, but she also played hard when it came to a good game of dominos.
She is preceded in death by her parents; her husband Harold; her brothers Gottlieb, Henry, Avil, Charlie, Floyd and Johnny; sisters Lillie, Irene; and Leona; and a grandson, Jerod.
She is survived by her children, Ervin and wife Rebecca of Dublin, Linda and husband Leonard of Priddy, Florenda Sylvester of Alpharetta, Georgia, and Cynthia Jones of Granbury; 15 grandchildren and step-grandchildren and their families; 39 great-grandchildren and step-great-grandchildren and their families; 17 step-great-great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces, nephews and longtime friends.
