Helyn Hawkins

Funeral services for Helyn Hawkins, 88, Lawrence, will be at 11 a.m. Friday at the St. Luke AME Church. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery.

She died Thursday, June 4, 2009, at Pioneer Ridge Assisted Living.

She was born March 5, 1921, in Lawrence, the daughter of John C.Z. and Florence Murray Fishback.

Ms. Hawkins obtained a beauty school license from Madame CJ Walker’s Beauty Shop in Kansas City, Mo., and another license from Lawrence in 1947. She worked at Vanity from 1960 through 2000 and worked at Hairport from 2000 to 2005. She was a member of St. Luke AME and a more than 50-year member of the Siloam Chapter No. 10 Order of the Eastern Star.

Survivors include two cousins, Arthur Frye and Jane Barnes, both of Lawrence.

The family will greet friends an hour before the service at the church. The family suggests memorials to the church, sent in care of Warren-McElwain Mortuary.

Online condolences may be sent at warrenmcelwain.com, subject: Hawkins.