Helen Kellon MONCRIEF

1913 - 2011  (97 years)

• Name	Helen Kellon MONCRIEF
  Birth	28 Dec 1913	Nashville, Howard, Arkansas, USA   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Female
  Also Known As	Kellon
  Residence	1 Apr 1935	Olmito, Cameron, Texas, USA   [3]
  Census	14 Apr 1940	Hidalgo County, Texas, USA   [3]
  	Justice Precinct 7
  Religion	Methodist
  Occupation	Avon Saleslady
  Occupation	Housewife
  Occupation	School Cafeteria Worker
  Death	14 Jul 2011  [1]
  Burial	23 Jul 2011	Mont Meta Memorial Park, San Benito, Cameron, Texas, USA   [1]
  Person ID	I22855	Dyal and Speckels
  Last Modified	22 Apr 2013

  
  

  Family	Carlisle Glenn MILUM,   b. 5 Apr 1908, Watertown, Codington, South Dakota, USA d. 10 Apr 1996, Bexar County, Texas, USA (Age 88 years)
  Divorce	1937	Cameron County, Texas, USA   [4]
  Children	+ 1. Coy Olan MILUM,   b. 8 Oct 1933, Brulay Plantation, Cameron, Texas, USA d. 30 Oct 1995, Houston, Harris, Texas, USA (Age 62 years)
  Family ID	F15936	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Apr 2013

  
  

• Notes

  “The family moved from Arkansas to Louisiana, where Kellon began her long journey with her Lord and Savior at a tent meeting, where she was baptized and joined the Methodist Church. The Moncrief's, a railroad family, moved to the Rio Grande Valley in October, 1929, via a Missouri Pacific passenger train. Kellon attended high school in Mission, Olmito, and finally Brownsville where she met her first husband. “Over the following three years, she became the proud mother of three children, Ila Beth, Roy, and Coy (identical twins). The young marriage did not survive the Great Depression and the 1933 hurricane, so Kellon and the children moved back into her parents' home (which included the Missouri Pacific Depot in Progresso, Texas). In 1936, she met a bachelor named Jim Carr, who was a co-worker in the citrus industry in Weslaco. Kellon was proud to be a packer of Texas citrus. Throughout her life, she knowingly ate no citrus unless it was Valley citrus. Kellon became Mrs. Jim Carr, on May 5, 1938, at her parent's home in Olmito, with Rev. Wendel Carr (Jim's brother) presiding. The family was joined by another daughter, also named Helen Kellon, in 1939. The family moved from Weslaco to Bayview in 1942 and was increased by one more daughter before moving into Los Fresnos in 1947, where the door was always open to their children's friends and one more potato would be added to the pot if the friends stayed for supper. If there was a young man in uniform, within Kellon's vision, he was welcomed into the family with loving arms. “After all the children, except the youngest, was gone from home, she went to work in the Los Fresnos School cafeteria, increasing the number of loved children by the number who went through the food line each day. After Jim passed away in 1971, Kellon became an Avon Lady, at which she excelled for 25 years. She lived in the same house for 56 1/2 years, in the community she loved. After declining health and low vision forced her to give up living alone, she remained a resident of Los Fresnos, making her home with her daughter-in-law, Ruby Moses Milum and daughter Helen Hicks, until 2007 when she moved to LaVernia, Texas.” [1]

  
  

• Sources

  [S963] Friday, July 22, 2011. [S220] Ancestry.com, Texas Birth Certificates, 1903–1932, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013), Year 1933, File #77491. [S1629] United States of America, Bureau of the Census, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, Hidalgo County, Texas, ED 108-54, p. 4A, line 25. [S963] Tuesday, December 14, 1937, p. 9.