Helen Louise Schlichter

Helen was born on December 21, 1928, in Topeka, Kansas to Dain Bouton and Jenny (O’Neal) Bouton. She worked in her teen years for Schlichter’s Grocery where she met Bill Schlichter. They were married August 6, 1950, at United Presbyterian Church in Topeka. Helen graduated from Topeka High School and attended Washburn University where she learned to operate a comptometer, a skill she used in Washington, DC while Bill served in Korea. They eventually settled in Kansas City, Missouri where they raised three daughters.

Helen was a stay-at-home mom. She was a girl scout leader for all three daughters, and a volunteer Grey Lady at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Kansas City for 15 years. She enjoyed sewing clothes for her girls, frequently matching outfits, ceramics, and playing bridge. After her children were grown, she worked for Jones Store until she retired in 1993.

She and Bill constructed elaborate doll houses. Helen and Bill spent their winters in McAllister, Texas, with the Elder Birds camping club. She and Bill also enjoyed traveling in their camper, and have visited all but 7 of the US States, and took a trip through the Panama Canal, as well as a trip to London with her sister and brother-in-law, Doris and Forest Inks, and a Caribbean cruise with.

She is survived by her daughters Pamela (husband Allen Troxel), Rebecca (husband Edward Gist), and Alise (husband Randal Sunderman), as well as her grandsons Aaron Sunderman and Jeffrey Sunderman, as well as her nieces Rhiannon Miller (husband Jay), Kathleen Anderson (husband Claude), Karla Lathron, and nephew Steven Schultz (wife Gale).

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association, ALZ.org.