Janet Greene Helms
Saturday
8
February

Visitation

1:00 pm - 1:45 pm
Saturday, February 8, 2025
Holman Funeral Home Chapel
995 South Union Avenue
Ozark, Alabama, United States
Visitation
Saturday
8
February

Graveside Service

2:00 pm
Saturday, February 8, 2025
Westview Memorial Cemetery
East Andrews Avenue
Ozark, Alabama, United States
Graveside Service

Obituary of Janet Greene Helms

Mrs. Martha Janet Greene Helms, a former resident of Ozark, passed away Thursday, January 30, 2025. She was 90 years old. Graveside services for Mrs. Helms will be 2:00 P.M. Saturday, February 8, 2025, in Westview Memorial Cemetery, Holman Funeral Home of Ozark directing. The family will receive friends Saturday at the funeral home in Ozark from 1:00 P.M. until time to depart for the service. Mrs. Helms was born November 4, 1934 in Henry County, Alabama to the late Floyd Chappell Greene and Minnie Belle Horne Greene. She received her Masters Degree in Education from Troy Teacher’s College and taught elementary education for over thirty years until her retirement. Before her retirement, she was teaching the children of her former students. She was dedicated to her Dawn Bible Students Class of Louisville, Alabama. Mrs. Helms was an avid reader who enjoyed poetry, particularly Emily Dickenson. She loved flowers and enjoyed a sun-shiny day working in her yards. To know Mrs. Helms was to love her. She retained a child-like desire to learn more about nature and all of its’ wonders. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her brother and sister-in-law, William Noah Greene and Martha Stafford Greene. She is survived by three nephews, Terry Greene (Cindy) of Northport, Alabama, Carl Greene (Nicole) of Dothan, Alabama and Eric Greene (Jill) of Trussville, Alabama. She leaves behind great nieces and great nephews, Clint Greene and Chelsea Newels of Northport, Whitney Bass and Hannah King of Dothan, Elijah, Ethan and Phoebe Greene of Trussville. Mrs. Helms is also survived by four great-great nieces and four great-great nephews. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made in her memory to Dawn Bible Students Association, 199 Railroad Avenue, East Rutherford, New Jersey 07073; or to Hospice of West Alabama, 3851 Loop Road, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35404. (hospicewestal.com)
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