Mrs. Helen Louise Windham

January 16, 1923 - October 16, 2018

Graveside funeral services for Mrs. Helen Louise Windham, 95, of Carthage, Texas, will be 2:00 p.m., Thursday, October 18, 2018 at the Odd Fellows Cemetery with Bro. Mike Wilson officiating. Burial will follow under the direction of Hawthorn Funeral Home. Mrs. Helen Louise Underwood Windham was born January 16, 1923 in Italy, Texas to the marriage of Robert Frank and Johnnie Ella Sanders Underwood. She passed this life October 16, 2018 at her Carthage, Texas home. She was raised and schooled in Carthage graduating with the class of 1940. She attended business college in Shreveport, Louisiana and married Alva Bruce Windham in 1952. They celebrated 28 years of marriage and raised two daughters in a loving home before he preceded her in death in 1980. Louise worked for E.R. Sink Operators as a clerk and retired from McGuire Contractors in 1991. Mrs. Windham was a lifelong member of the First Baptist Church of Carthage. She loved cooking, puzzles, travel, and her yard and garden. She is also preceded in death by her parents, sister, Eva White, brothers, J.R. and George Edward Underwood, sister-in-law, Helen Raley Underwood. Mrs. Windham is survived by her daughters, Brenda Elaine Windham of Carthage, Frankie Lou Brown of Dallas, sisters, Evelyn Click of Springville, Maine, Lucille Pixler of Round Rock, and Wanda Wallace and husband James Arnold of Longview, numerous nieces, nephews and a host of friends. The family requests memorials to the First Baptist Church of Carthage. An online guestbook may be signed at www.hawthornfuneralhome.com.