Helen Durrett

Helen Rose Wallace Durrett Helen Rose Wallace Durrett, 81, died Saturday, August 17, 2013 in the Osceola Therapy & Living Center in Osceola, AR. Born August 28, 1931 in Haywood County, TN, she attended Woodland Grammar School and graduated from Haywood High and South Western Business College in Jackson, TN. She lived and worked most of her life in Hoover, AL outside of Birmingham and retired in Alabaster, AL. She attended Woodland Baptist Church. She has resided with the Reece's for the past year during her illness and the last few months at Osceola Therapy and Living Center. She was preceded in death by her parents, Julius K. and Pauline Jones Wallace; three brothers, Jerry King Wallace, Larry Joe Wallace and Robert William "Bill" Wallace. She is survived by one sister, Linda Wallace Reece (J.W.), Osceola, AR; several nephews; great-nieces and nephews and cousins, Joe Sills (Susan), Tim Sills (Carol), and Dorothy Sills Jackson (Dan), all of Brownsville, TN. Visitation will be Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013 from 1:00 - 2:00 P.M. in the Lea and Simmons Funeral in Brownsville, TN. Graveside Funeral services will be held Thursday, Aug. 22 at Oakwood Cemetery at 2:30 P.M in Brownsville, TN. Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society, Memphis Office, 1378 Union Ave., Memphis, TN 38104.