Helen Cruce

Mrs. Helen Jean Turner Cruce, 82, of Troy died Friday evening, Sept. 15, 2017, at her residence.
Funeral services will be held 11 a.m. Tuesday at White & Mahon Funeral Home in Troy. Dr. Vann Kissell will officiate. Burial will follow in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, near Rives.
The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 4-7 p.m. today.
Pallbearers will be Robert Osborne, Bub Eller, Kenneth Jones, Jason Wherry, Tyler Delbo and Corey McDaniel.
She was born Sept. 25, 1934, in Obion County to the late Willie Turner and the late Geneva (Williams) Turner. She married Alvin D. Cruce on June 14, 1953. He died March 22, 2008.
She was an employee of the former Troy Manufacturing, a member of Troy First Baptist Church and the TFL Sunday school class.
She is survived by her daughter, Glenda Jane Meadow and her husband, John, both of Joppa, Ala.; two sons, James Cruce and his wife, Judy, of Murfreesboro and Steve Cruce and his wife, Peggy, of Troy. She is also survived by one grandson, Leslie Tidwell of Troy; four granddaughters, Rachel Meadow and Ashley Meadow, both of Joppa, Jamie Tidwell of Union City and Allison Cruce of Henderson; and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by a daughter, Brenda Jean Cruce; a brother, Houston Turner; and a granddaughter, Tracey McDaniel.
Condolences may be sent to the family at the funeral home website: www.white-ranson.com.
Published 9.18.17