Helen Childress

Helen Willis Childress, 90, of Concord, went home to be with the Lord Monday, January 11, 2016 at Five Oaks Manor.
Funeral services will be held at 4pm Wednesday, January 13, 2016 in Wilkinson Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Ben Creed officiating. The family will receive friends from 3-4 pm prior to the service. She will be laid to rest in Oakwood Cemetery.
She was a loving mother and grandmother.
She was born on January 7, 1926 to the late Thomas and Maggie Hilton Willis. Along with her parents she was preceded in death by her loving husband, Marvin Childress. Left to cherish her memory are daughters, Linda Kennedy and husband Eddie of Concord, Cynthia Early of China Grove, Dianne Ford and husband Wayne of Concord, and Pat Earnhardt of Kannapolis; son, Curt Childress of Kannapolis; sister, Nancy Sechler of Kannapolis; brother, Tommy Willis of Kannapolis; eight grandchildren; and 9 great-grandchildren.
Memorials may be made to the Wounded Warrior Project, P.O. Box 758517, Topeka, Kansas 66675.