Helen Ruth Fellers Crawford

Helen Ruth Fellers Crawford was born at home in Dallas, Texas on November 12, 1925 to her loving parents, Carl Marx Fellers and Sophia Lavina. She survived one brother, Roy Gilbert Fellers of Lodi, California and one sister, Lola Mae Gustafson of Brenham, Texas.

At age 16, she graduated from Azle High School where she was a cheerleader. She found great joy in keeping in touch with friends and cousins there.

She attended Nixon-Clay Business School while working for a construction company before moving to Austin. She then enjoyed six years of employment with the City of Austin Electric department. There she met the love of her life, R. G. Crawford, who had just returned from the US Navy. They married 1947 and were blessed with four wonderful children. That marriage lasted 36 years.

In 1983 R. G. passed away, leaving his family and a host of friends and relatives. Helen found that life does go on. She did volunteer work, joined clubs and loved to travel. During this time, she found happiness in her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, as well as in her friends at church, First Cumberland Presbyterian and the Widow’s Group of Hyde Park Baptist Church.

She took great pride in becoming and associate member of the Telephone Pioneers of America and in joining the Beta Sigma Phi service sorority and remained friends with many people who were important to her.

She is survived by her four children, Judy Huey and her husband, Dr. Dicky Huey, Christye Forbis and her husband, Steve Forbis, Ray Crawford and partner, Don Henderson, Richard Crawford and his wife, Kristina Crawford; 7 grandchildren, Vicki Guel and her husband, Gabe, Jeffrey Mueller and his wife, Maureen, Sarah Seay and her husband, Corey, Adrienne Pollard and her finance, Nathan, Scott Pollard, Kallie Crawford and Kolton Crawford; 3 great-grandchildren, Payton Perkins, Sydney Perkins and Jaxon Seay; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Friends are cordially invited to a visitation with the family from six o’clock until eight o’clock in the evening, on Thursday, the 7th of June 2012, at Cook-Walden Funeral Home, 6100 North Lamar Boulevard, Austin, Texas.

Funeral services will be conducted at two o’clock in the afternoon on Friday, the 8th of June, in the Colonial Chapel of Cook-Walden Funeral Home, 6100 North Lamar Boulevard, Austin, Texas. A reception will follow the service with light

refreshments provided by the family through Cook-Walden Funeral Home Catering Services. Private interment will follow in Austin Memorial Park Cemetery, Austin, Texas.

In lieu of flowers and the customary remembrances, memorials may be sent to the American Heart Association, 10900-B Stonelake Blvd., Suite 320, Austin, TX 78759.

Condolences may be sent to www.cookwaldenfuneralhome.com.

Thanks to the staff at Westminster Manor and Longhorn Village

for their loving care.