Helen Barnes

Helen S. Barnes, 97, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, Dec. 13, 2004, at Chateau Girardeau Health Center.

She was born May 8, 1907, daughter of John Isaac and Ida Schulz Sample. She first married Kenneth S. Chester in December 1964. He died in 1969. She later married Asa Barnes in 1973 in St. Augustine, Fla. He died in 1987.

Barnes was a member of Centenary United Methodist Church, Missouri State Teachers Association and Order of the Eastern Star.

She was a 1928 graduate of Southeast Missouri State University, and received a master's degree in education from Columbia University in New York City. She then worked in the Alton, Ill., School District, returning to Cape Girardeau in the 1950s.

Survivors include two stepsons, Asa Barnes of Kenya, Africa, and Robert Barnes of Salt Lake City, Utah.

There is no visitation or service.

Ford and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.