Obituary

Helen Munroe, 95, passed from this life on March 6, 2012, at her daughter's home in Chino, Calif. A memorial service will be at 10 a.m. Monday, March 12, 2012, at Kornerstone Funeral Directors Chapel in Plainview. Helen was a member of Ninth and Columbia Church of Christ. Minister Evan Weiss will officiate the memorial service. Burial will follow in Parklawn Memorial Gardens under the direction of Kornerstone Funeral Directors in Plainview. Visitation with the family will be from 6-8 p.m. at Kornerstone today, March 11. Helen was born July 22, 1916, in Ballinger, Texas, to William Lester Smith and Arlie Evelyn Hanes Smith. Helen was the fifth of six children. Her father died in the influenza epidemic in 1918. Her mother died in 1966. Helen married Albert Munroe on Aug. 31, 1936. They managed a dryland farm and operated a small dairy in Roscoe, Texas, where their four daughters were born. In January 1952, the family moved from Nolan County to an irrigated farm and dairy in Hale County, northeast of Plainview. Helen learned the drapery business when she worked at Home Beautiful. In 1959 she started her own business, Helen Munroe Draperies, and in 1962 the family moved to a home in Hillcrest where she made drapes and custom linens for commercial and residential customers. She retired in 2001 to care for Albert, who died in March 2001. Mrs. Munroe is survived by a sister, Pauline Heine of Sweetwater, Texas; four daughters and sons-in-law, Cyndia and James Maxwell of Pleasanton, Texas, Mary Alice and Tom Reed of Chino, Calif., Nancy and Troy Carter of Plainview and Janie and Jim Thomas of Amarillo; five grandsons; four granddaughters; and 15 great-grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Children's Home of Lubbock. Online condolences may be made at www.kornerstonefunerals.com.