02/14/10 - NNHS Newsletter - Margaret Ellis Helmick Margaret Aleen Ellis Helmick (04 Jan 1926 - 08 Jan 2009)

Dear Friends and Schoolmates, 
   There is even more sad news today.  Margaret Ellis Helmick, mother of    Norma Helmick Burks of VA, Band Sweetheart of 1963, passed away on Thursday, February 11, 2010 in Carrollton at the age of 91.

 From the Daily Press - 02/14/10:

             Margaret Ellis Helmick

			CARROLLTON - Margaret Ellis Helmick, 91, passed away Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010, after a brief illness. Born in Isle of Wight County, she was the daughter of the late Benjamin Ellis and Rose Mae Warren Ellis. The daughter of a share-cropper family, in her early years, Margaret lived and worked on farms in Surry County. She lived in Newport News for a number of years, coming back to Isle of Wight in the 1960s. She continued to garden until she was 89. Margaret was the devoted wife of the late Presley Calvin Helmick. She was the beloved mother of Barbara Morris, Patricia Glover and her husband, Roger, and Norma Burks; grandmother of Roger H. Glover Jr., Michael Scott Glover, John C. Glover, R. Sebastian Morris, Stephen W. Morris, LeAnn Morris-Lee, Stephanie Carol Sarris, and Margaret Ann Frazier; great-grandmother of Candice Harshfield, Trey, P.J., Hailey, Morgan, Kendall, Caroline and Emma Glover, and Zachary Sarris.
	Margaret Ellis Helmick

   Our sincerest condolences are extended to Mrs. Helmick's family and friends at this time.

  Y'all take good care of each other!  TYPHOONS FOREVER! We'll Always Have Buckroe!

                          Love to all, Carol

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This Is My Father's World

Words by Maltbie D. Babcock, 1901
Traditional English Melody (Terra Beata), arranged by Franklin L. Sheppard, 1915
 

This is my Father’s world, and to my listening ears
All nature sings, and round me rings the music of the spheres.
This is my Father’s world: I rest me in the thought
Of rocks and trees, of skies and seas;
His hand the wonders wrought.

This is my Father’s world, the birds their carols raise,
The morning light, the lily white, declare their Maker’s praise.
This is my Father’s world: He shines in all that’s fair;
In the rustling grass I hear Him pass;
He speaks to me everywhere.

This is my Father’s world. O let me ne’er forget
That though the wrong seems oft so strong, God is the ruler yet.
This is my Father’s world: the battle is not done:
Jesus Who died shall be satisfied,
And earth and Heav’n be one.

This is my Father’s world, dreaming, I see His face.
I ope my eyes, and in glad surprise cry, “The Lord is in this place.”
This is my Father’s world, from the shining courts above,
The Beloved One, His Only Son,
Came—a pledge of deathless love.

This is my Father’s world, should my heart be ever sad?
The lord is King—let the heavens ring. God reigns—let the earth be glad.
This is my Father’s world. Now closer to Heaven bound,
For dear to God is the earth Christ trod.
No place but is holy ground.

This is my Father’s world. I walk a desert lone.
In a bush ablaze to my wondering gaze God makes His glory known.
This is my Father’s world, a wanderer I may roam
Whate’er my lot, it matters not,
My heart is still at home.

This Is My Father's World midi and lyrics courtesy of http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/t/i/tismyfw.htm  - 06/19/07

Greg Olsen Paintings courtesy of http://gregolsengallery.com – 03/15/05

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