Obituaries

Mary Ozelle Gladden Helms, age 89, of Lincolnton, died on Tuesday, December 24, 2019.

Her funeral service will be held at 12:00 p.m. on Friday, December 27, 2019, in the Warlick Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Wayne Brittain officiating.  Burial will follow in Forest Lawn Cemetery.  The family will receive friends on Friday from 11:00 until 11:45 a.m. at the funeral home.   

Mrs. Helms was born February 20, 1930 in Lincoln County, to the late Ed Griffin and Etta Huffsteller Gladden.  In addition to her parents, she was also preceded in death by her son, Bobby James Helms, Sr.; her grandson, Bobby James Helms, Jr.; brothers, Rayford Gladden, Herman Gladden, and Hugh Gladden; and sisters, Pauline Gladden, Sadie Gladden, Hazel Gladden, Ruth Gladden, and Fay Gladden.  She was retired from textiles.

She is survived by two daughters, Elizabeth Ann Williams and family of Fredricksburg, VA and Billie Helms  Minteer (Tim Camp) and family of Shelby; two brothers, Kemp Gladden and family of Conover and Joe Gladden and family of Lincolnton; four grandchildren, James Anthony Williams, Bobby James Helms, Lloyd Alvin Minteer, III, and Casey Travis Minteer; and seven great-grandchildren, Dakota Williams Conhur Williams, Elijah Minteer, Aiden Minteer, Ethan Minteer, Samantha Minteer, and Blake Able Minteer.