Helen M Cass

Helen Meyer Cass, of New Orleans, Louisiana, passed away peacefully in Covington, LA on October 29, 2025. Born on July 11, 1944, Helen was preceded in death by her parents Helen Perilloux Meyer and Harry Conrad Meyer, her husband Donald Francis Cass, and her siblings.

She is survived by her children Skip (Christi), Jeffrey (Sheri), and Erin, along with her six grandchildren Andrew, Katie, Hayden, Elise, Peggy, and Carson, and two great-grandsons Christopher and Benjamin.

Helen graduated from St. Joseph Academy in 1962 and went on to study business at the University of New Orleans, where she met Don, her husband of 59 years. On their honeymoon, they visited Stone Mountain, Georgia, where they carved their names into the rock — eternalizing their 1964 wedding vows.

She spent her early married years as a stay-at-home mom, later working in Avon sales and office management roles in medical offices from 1983 to 1996. While at Avon, she ranked in the top 20% of representatives nationwide.

Helen was a talented artist, known especially for her watercolor paintings, which she sold at art fairs and festivals around New Orleans. She also had a passion for refinishing antique furniture, carefully restoring family pieces that had been passed down for generations.

As a girl, Helen spent summers at her family’s camp on Lake Pontchartrain, sparking a lifelong love of being outdoors and near the water. She and Don enjoyed camping with their family and traveling to Colorado. They later lived across from the levee of Lake Pontchartrain on Folse Drive in Metairie — always keeping a close connection to the water.

Over the years, Helen resided in Orleans, St. Bernard, Jefferson, and St. Tammany parishes, collecting friends all along the way. She was quintessentially New Orleans — resourceful, witty and always willing to share her opinion on matters large and small.

Despite being diagnosed with dementia after the loss of her husband, Helen faced the closing chapter of her life with remarkable grace and dignity. Her final journey serves as a powerful lesson that resilience, compassion and kindness are attainable at any time and under the most difficult of circumstances.