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Helen Kelley

Female 1932 - 2005  (73 years)


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  • Name Helen Kelley  [1
    Birth 18 Jan 1932  Carlisle County, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Female 
    Death 22 Dec 2005  Bardwell, Carlisle County, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Burial Roselawn Cemetery, Bardwell, Carlisle County, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Notes 
    • Information below copied from her Find A Grave memorial page:


      Kentucky Birth Index
      Name: Helen Y Kelley; Date of Birth: 18 Jan 1932; County: Carlisle; Mother's Name: Annis Wooden

      Published in The Paducah Sun, Paducah, McCracken Co, Ky., 23 Dec 2005 - BARDWELL, Ky. -- Helen Kelley Drysdale, age 73, of Bardwell died at 12:20 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 22, 2005, at her home on Elsey Avenue in Bardwell. She was born Jan. 18, 1932, at the Kelley family homeplace on West Fork Creek in Carlisle County. Burial will be in Roselawn Cemetery in Bardwell.

      Mrs. Drysdale graduated from Bardwell High School and attended college at Memphis State University. In April of 1950, she married Ed Drysdale of Fulton, a pharmacist, and she and her husband founded Drysdale's Drug Store on Front Street in Bardwell in the early 1950s, which they operated for nearly 35 years, until 1986. Ed Drysdale died in 1989. Helen was a member of Bardwell Baptist Church, and during Ed's life, had also regularly attended Bardwell Methodist Church.

      She is survived by four children, Drew, Mark and Clay Drysdale and Jill Drysdale Taylor; and by four grandchildren, Mark's daughters, Sarah and Catherine, and Clay's son and daughter, Evan and Erin. She is also survived by one brother, Keith Kelley of Bardwell.
      In addition to her husband, Ed Drysdale, Helen was also preceded in death by two sons, William Edgar Drysdale Jr. and Ed Kelley Drysdale, who both died in infancy. Both her parents, John M. and Cleo (Wooden) Kelley, and one brother, R.L. Kelley, also preceded her.
    Person ID I47142  Strong Family Tree
    Last Modified 21 Apr 2018 

    Family Wiilliam Edgar Drysdale,   b. 15 Aug 1923, Fulton County, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 31 Oct 1989 (Age 66 years) 
    Family ID F14077  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 Apr 2018 

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    1. [S873] Find A Grave [database online]; http://www.findagrave.com/, (Thousands of contributors submit new listings, updates, corrections, photographs and virtual flowers every hour to the FIND A GRAVE website. When it comes to administrating, building and maintaining the site, Find A Grave is largely operated by its founder, Jim Tipton.), Memorial ID 117007480 (Reliability: 3).