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Helen (Longshore)
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1967 The Roar
R. L. Turner High School
Carrollton, Dallas Co., Texas
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OBITUARY
 Helen
Winder
December 21, 1949 - January 10, 2024
FORT WORTH - Helen Winder, 74, passed away on Wednesday, January 10,
2024.
Memorial service: 12 p.m. Tuesday, January 16, 2024, in Mount Olivet
Chapel.
She was born in Tennessee; but she grew up in Farmers Branch, Texas.
Growing up, she loved books and learning and dreamed of one day becoming
an astronaut. In high school, she was a Lionette on the drill team at,
R.L. Turner High School, where she met some of her lifelong friends.
During her summers, she worked at a Diabetic camp helping kids like her
who had juvenile diabetes.
She was driving at age 13 getting her brother and sister to all the
places they all needed to go. She has a sister, Donna Jo, who now lives
in Carrollton, and her younger brother, Arthur, who passed away in 2010,
both of whom she loved dearly. She left home at 15 and went to Texas
Tech, where she spent 2 years in school before moving to West Texas
State in Canyon, Texas. Her first daughter, Cemberly, was born in 1970,
and they moved to Bellaire, Texas, then Lubbock and then to Rockwall
where her second daughter Jennifer was born.
After a few years in Rockwall, the family moved to Connecticut where
they spent a short time before deciding that the weather there was not
for them, and they moved back to Rockwall, Texas. They moved to Canyon
in 1985, where Cemberly graduated high school, and Jennifer grew up.
Helen loved to watch Jennifer and the Lady Eagle girls' basketball team
play every chance she had. In 1997, she met Bruce and moved to Saginaw.
They were married in Las Vegas on February 14, 1998, and started their
life together. She also gained two wonderful step-daughters, Pamela and
Jennifer. She loved her grandchildren and cherished watching them grow
up. She and Bruce ran a company together for many years called
Woodpeckers where they traveled around to Dog Shows and sold various
items for dogs. She loved being at the shows and would talk about them
often.
She had so many sweet friends from those times who she loved dearly.
During their travels, they visited Cozumel, Mexico, and saw Neil Diamond
in concert in Las Vegas. Some of her favorite times were spent sitting
on the Mississippi watching the barges, and she loved the beach in
Biloxi. She loved her daughters with a ferocity that was untouched by
anything, and she will be greatly missed by them, and all those who
loved her so much.
She lived life to the fullest and did the things that made her happiest,
and truly encompassed her favorite saying, "It is what it is."
Her brother, Arthur Longshore; and her stepdaughter, Pamela Smith,
preceded her in death.
Survivors: Husband, Lyle Bruce Winder; children, Jennifer and Cemberly
Dooley, Jennifer Schwem, and Alix Gilmore; and grandsons, Connor
Thompson, Ethan Smith, and Nicholas Schwem. |
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