
Helen first met Evans Woodrow Wilburn on Sat., Nov. 21, 1936, at Cato; they were married on Sept. 29, 1940, sharing sixty-one years together and raising one son, Scottie Wyatt Wilburn; Woodrow preceded her in death on May 27, 2001. Besides her husband and parents; brother, James Gregory and sister, Clarice Gregory, also preceded her in death. She worked public work in her earlier years, while living in Nashville. After moving back home to a farm in the Meadorville community in 1952, she became a homemaker. A kind, gentle, caring, virtuous woman, Helen was a lover of family and friends, and enjoyed being outdoors. She was saved by God’s amazing grace as a young girl while attending Mace’s Hill Missionary Baptist Church, after being saved, she was baptized into the fellowship of Dixon Creek Missionary Baptist Church at Cato, where she remained a member until death. She loved her church family and her husband’s home church at Old Bottom, and had a desire for everyone to be saved. Helen will be missed by all who knew and loved her. She is survived by; son and daughter-in-law, Scottie and Gayle Wilburn of the Meadorville community, granddaughter, Jennifer (Jason) Brawner of Lafayette, and Kara (Nathan) Wheet of the Union Hill community, great-grandchildren, Mia, Molly, and Carson Brawner of Lafayette, Elijah and Bree Wheet of the Union Hill community, also survive.