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Helen Edwards

Services will be 1 p.m. Friday at White & Mahon Funeral Home in Troy, with the Rev. Melvin Orr officiating. Burial will follow in Ebenezer Cemetery near Troy.
The family will receive friends 5-8:30 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.
Her grandsons will serve as pallbearers: Craig Dugger, Russ Baggett, Brad Baggett, Kyle Baggett,  Kurt Baggett, Keith Conner, Brian Conner and Nate Pruitt. Honorary pallbearers will be her granddaughters: Dana Pruitt, Courtney Dugger, Kim Dugger, Laura Conner and Carolina Conner.
The family requests that memorials be made to the charity of the donor’s choice.
She was born Nov. 2, 1930, in Hickman, Ky., daughter of the late Roy and Mary (Killebrew) Hickman. She married G.C. Conner Dec. 21, 1948. He died Nov. 11, 1968. She married R.A. Edwards July 1, 1994. He died in August 2007. She was a greeter for Walmart for more than 20 years before her retirement and was a member of New Ebenezer Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
She is survived by two daughters and her son-in-law, Carol and Dwight Baggett of Troy and Kathy Dugger of Union City; three sons and two daughters-in-law, Ricky and Pat Conner of the Polk Station community, Ronnie and Donna Conner of the Ebenezer community and Terry Conner of Hornbeak; 13 grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; and her sister, Fran Thomas of Union City.
She was also preceded in death by her grandson, Kevin Conner; her son-in-law, Steve Dugger; four brothers, Paul Hickman, Russell Hickman, Buddy Hickman and Jerry Hickman; and two sisters, Gladys McClure and Alma Isbell.
Condolences may be sent to the family at the funeral home website: www.white-ranson.com.