Helen Irene Mills

McLouth — Graveside inurnment services for Helen Irene Mills, 89, McLouth, will be private.Mrs. Mills died Thursday, Dec. 4, 2008, in Lawrence.She was born on July 4, 1919, the daughter of Christian and Laura Poulsen. Mrs. Mills was a homemaker.She married Clarence Dale Mills. He preceded her in death on Jan. 6, 1983. She was also preceded in death by a son, Clarence “Butch” Mills. Survivors include four daughters, Maxine Handley, Fenton, Mich., Barbara Larison and Kathy Lewallen, both of McLouth, and Jeannie Parmer, Lawrence; two sons, Mike Mills and Randy Mills, both of Lawrence; two sisters, Evelyn Kelly, Chanute, and Marie Wendt, Salina; a stepbrother, Harold Coleman, Overland Park; 15 grandchildren; 31 great-grandchildren; and seven great-great-grandchildren.The family suggests memorials to the hospice agency Southern Care Inc., sent in care of Quisenberry Funeral Home, P.O. Box 993, Tonganoxie, KS 66086.Online condolences may be sent at quisenberryfh.com.