Helen Cole Pickens

Helen Cole Pickens

was born in Wayne County, Tennessee on December 21, 1926 the daughter of the late Robert Roy and Esther C. Alley Cole.

On September 21, 1944 she was united in marriage to James R. Pickens, who preceded his wife in death on August 5, 2000.

Helen was a homemaker and was of the Baptist belief. She loved to crochet, do yard work, watch channel 18 and soap operas. Helen really loved spending the holidays with her family.

She departed this life on Friday, October 22, 2021 in Savannah, Tennessee at the age of 94 years, 10 months and 1 day.

Helen is survived by her children, James Larry Pickens, David Keith Pickens and his wife Krysta, Linda Janelle Burks and her husband Travis, Shirley Ann Bowling, Jerry Michael Pickens, Jimmy Reese Pickens and his wife Lisa, and Mary Jo Blount and her husband Donald, all of Savannah, Tennessee, Robert Eugene Pickens and his wife Sherry of Selmer, Tennessee, Lisa Renee Newberry of Florence, Alabama, and Rebecca Jane McDade and her husband Mike of Huntingdon, Tennessee; 19 grandchildren, 27 great grandchildren, and 4 great great grandchildren; and one brother, John G. Cole of Savannah, Tennessee.

In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by two grandchildren, Nicholas Bowling and Byron Bowling, two brothers, Harold and Don Cole, and three sisters, Lucille Shaw, JoAnn Smith, and Jessie Mae Jerrolds.