HELEN JARVIS

PARMA -- Helen F. Jarvis, 74, of Parma died Thursday, May 7, 1998, at National Healthcare Center in Kennett.

She was born Feb. 7, 1924, in Light, Ark., daughter of Floyd and Ruth Virginia Ponder South.

Jarvis lived in Chesapeake, Va., many years. She moved to Kennett in 1980 and to Parma in 1986. She was a member of Freewill Baptist Church.

Survivors include six sisters, Ressie Croom and Helen Reeling of Salem, Ark., Lois Herrod, Hazel Smith and Billie Jacks, all of Paragould, Ark., Joyce Phelps of Swartz Creek, Mich.; and a brother, Charles Jacks of Dexter.

She was preceded in death by a brother.

Friends may call at Watkins and Sons Funeral Home in Parma from 5-8 p.m. today.

Funeral will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home, with the Rev. Cecil Keller officiating. Burial will be in Stanfield Cemetery near Malden.