Mr. Oscar Durant Helms

Sorrells Funeral Home - Geneva

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Date: Sep 03 2014 11:41 AM

Mr. Oscar Durant Helms of Geneva, Alabama passed away Tuesday, September 02, 2014.  He was 87.

Funeral services will be 11:00 a.m. Saturday, September 6, 2014 in the Mt. Olive Assembly of God Church in Holmes County with Rev. Thomas Ealum officiating.  Burial will follow in the church cemetery with Sorrells Funeral Home and Crematory of Geneva directing.  The family will receive friends at the church on Saturday beginning at 10:00 a.m. and continue until service time.

Mr. Helms was born January 8, 1927, in Holmes County, Florida to the late Oscar and Callie LaDora McDonald Helms.  He never talked about it much, but he was very proud of his service to his country by being a sailor on the USS Providence during WWII.  He cruised the shores off of N. Africa, Sicily and then Italy.  He actually pulled shore patrol duty around the great coliseum in Rome.  He spent most of his adult life working on helicopters and fighter jets.

Another life accomplishment of his was that of a poet.  After writing literally hundreds of poems, he was inducted into the “International Society of Poetry”.  His poem entitled “God’s Son”, was published in the book “The Colors of Life” and has been placed in libraries all across the United States and 40 other countries.

He attended Mt. Olive Assembly of God Church for a number of years.

In addition to his parents, two brothers: Carter and Carson Helms; three sisters: Dovie Lee Weeks, Daisy Byrd and Voncile Thomas, as well as the mother of his sons, Hazel Maringer, all preceded him in death.

Survivors include two sons: Larry Dale Helms and wife Susan of Westville, FL, Stanley Lavon Helms and wife Pat of Palm Beach Gardens, FL; eight grandchildren; 10 great-great-grandchildren; other extended family and friends.

 

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