Retired Jackson County educator, Mrs. Helen Givens Cantor, died at the age of 92 at 4:36 p.m. Friday afternoon, August 9, 2013 at Kindred Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Carthage where she had resided since August 30, 2011.
Edward L. Anderson officiated at the 11 a.m. Monday morning, August 12th services from the Hackett Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home. Burial followed in the Witcher Cemetery at Bagdad. One of two children, she was the only daughter of the late Winburn Eugene Givens who died 26 May 1947 and Sidney Era Sutton Givens who died 02 Sep 1961. Her brother, W. C. Givens, preceded her in death on 15 Sep 2002. On July 8, 1942, in Rossville, Georgia, she was united in marriage to Difficult community (Smith County) native Varnie Clyde Cantor. He preceded her in death on September 16, 2006 at the age 85 following over sixty-four years of marriage. In 1938, Mrs. Cantor graduated from the Jackson County Central High School and in 1958 received her Bachelors in Education from the Tennessee Polytechnic Institute in Cookeville, now Tennessee Technological University. Her forty-one year teaching career began in 1940 at Beech Grove School, a one teacher school. She also taught at Gladdice, Cubb Creek, Funns Branch, Wartrace, Hendersonville and Gainesboro Elementary where she taught the fourth grade. A talented artist, she was the traveling art teacher for the Jackson County school system before her retirement in 1981. She was a life long member of the Bagdad Church of Christ having been baptized in 1936 at the age of 15. Surviving is her only child, a daughter: Fay Cantor Leonard, of the Gladdice community; five grandchildren: Ronnie Leonard Jr., of Gladdice, Eric Leonard and wife, Lesa, of Bagdad, Daniel Leonard and Dianne Sevier, of Brush Creek, Benjamin Leonard and wife, Michelle, of Gladdice, Melissa Leonard, of the Turkey Creek community; ten great-grandchildren: Ronnie Jr.'s children, Ronnie III and Matthew; Eric's children, Nicole Leonard Gunter and husband, Brian, Ethan and John William; Daniel's children, Blake and Garrison; Ben's children, Anna Brooke and Natalie; Melissa's child, Allison Rae.
Family and friends will remember Helen as a devoted wife and loving, nurturing mother and grandmother and a loyal friend. She was a dedicated teacher, loved and respected by her students, a fabulous cook and talented seamstress.
The Cantor family requests memorials to the Witcher Cemetery Mowing Fund or the Bagdad Church of Christ. SANDERSON of KEMPVILLE
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Married Clyde Cantor on July 8, 1942 in Walker County, Georgia.
Edward L. Anderson officiated at the 11 a.m. Monday morning, August 12th services from the Hackett Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home. Burial followed in the Witcher Cemetery at Bagdad. One of two children, she was the only daughter of the late Winburn Eugene Givens who died 26 May 1947 and Sidney Era Sutton Givens who died 02 Sep 1961. Her brother, W. C. Givens, preceded her in death on 15 Sep 2002. On July 8, 1942, in Rossville, Georgia, she was united in marriage to Difficult community (Smith County) native Varnie Clyde Cantor. He preceded her in death on September 16, 2006 at the age 85 following over sixty-four years of marriage. In 1938, Mrs. Cantor graduated from the Jackson County Central High School and in 1958 received her Bachelors in Education from the Tennessee Polytechnic Institute in Cookeville, now Tennessee Technological University. Her forty-one year teaching career began in 1940 at Beech Grove School, a one teacher school. She also taught at Gladdice, Cubb Creek, Funns Branch, Wartrace, Hendersonville and Gainesboro Elementary where she taught the fourth grade. A talented artist, she was the traveling art teacher for the Jackson County school system before her retirement in 1981. She was a life long member of the Bagdad Church of Christ having been baptized in 1936 at the age of 15. Surviving is her only child, a daughter: Fay Cantor Leonard, of the Gladdice community; five grandchildren: Ronnie Leonard Jr., of Gladdice, Eric Leonard and wife, Lesa, of Bagdad, Daniel Leonard and Dianne Sevier, of Brush Creek, Benjamin Leonard and wife, Michelle, of Gladdice, Melissa Leonard, of the Turkey Creek community; ten great-grandchildren: Ronnie Jr.'s children, Ronnie III and Matthew; Eric's children, Nicole Leonard Gunter and husband, Brian, Ethan and John William; Daniel's children, Blake and Garrison; Ben's children, Anna Brooke and Natalie; Melissa's child, Allison Rae.
Family and friends will remember Helen as a devoted wife and loving, nurturing mother and grandmother and a loyal friend. She was a dedicated teacher, loved and respected by her students, a fabulous cook and talented seamstress.
The Cantor family requests memorials to the Witcher Cemetery Mowing Fund or the Bagdad Church of Christ. SANDERSON of KEMPVILLE
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Married Clyde Cantor on July 8, 1942 in Walker County, Georgia.
Retired Jackson County educator, Mrs. Helen Givens Cantor, died at the age of 92 at 4:36 p.m. Friday afternoon, August 9, 2013 at Kindred Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Carthage where she had resided since August 30, 2011.
Edward L. Anderson officiated at the 11 a.m. Monday morning, August 12th services from the Hackett Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home. Burial followed in the Witcher Cemetery at Bagdad. One of two children, she was the only daughter of the late Winburn Eugene Givens who died 26 May 1947 and Sidney Era Sutton Givens who died 02 Sep 1961. Her brother, W. C. Givens, preceded her in death on 15 Sep 2002. On July 8, 1942, in Rossville, Georgia, she was united in marriage to Difficult community (Smith County) native Varnie Clyde Cantor. He preceded her in death on September 16, 2006 at the age 85 following over sixty-four years of marriage. In 1938, Mrs. Cantor graduated from the Jackson County Central High School and in 1958 received her Bachelors in Education from the Tennessee Polytechnic Institute in Cookeville, now Tennessee Technological University. Her forty-one year teaching career began in 1940 at Beech Grove School, a one teacher school. She also taught at Gladdice, Cubb Creek, Funns Branch, Wartrace, Hendersonville and Gainesboro Elementary where she taught the fourth grade. A talented artist, she was the traveling art teacher for the Jackson County school system before her retirement in 1981. She was a life long member of the Bagdad Church of Christ having been baptized in 1936 at the age of 15. Surviving is her only child, a daughter: Fay Cantor Leonard, of the Gladdice community; five grandchildren: Ronnie Leonard Jr., of Gladdice, Eric Leonard and wife, Lesa, of Bagdad, Daniel Leonard and Dianne Sevier, of Brush Creek, Benjamin Leonard and wife, Michelle, of Gladdice, Melissa Leonard, of the Turkey Creek community; ten great-grandchildren: Ronnie Jr.'s children, Ronnie III and Matthew; Eric's children, Nicole Leonard Gunter and husband, Brian, Ethan and John William; Daniel's children, Blake and Garrison; Ben's children, Anna Brooke and Natalie; Melissa's child, Allison Rae.
Family and friends will remember Helen as a devoted wife and loving, nurturing mother and grandmother and a loyal friend. She was a dedicated teacher, loved and respected by her students, a fabulous cook and talented seamstress.
The Cantor family requests memorials to the Witcher Cemetery Mowing Fund or the Bagdad Church of Christ. SANDERSON of KEMPVILLE
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Married Clyde Cantor on July 8, 1942 in Walker County, Georgia.
Edward L. Anderson officiated at the 11 a.m. Monday morning, August 12th services from the Hackett Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home. Burial followed in the Witcher Cemetery at Bagdad. One of two children, she was the only daughter of the late Winburn Eugene Givens who died 26 May 1947 and Sidney Era Sutton Givens who died 02 Sep 1961. Her brother, W. C. Givens, preceded her in death on 15 Sep 2002. On July 8, 1942, in Rossville, Georgia, she was united in marriage to Difficult community (Smith County) native Varnie Clyde Cantor. He preceded her in death on September 16, 2006 at the age 85 following over sixty-four years of marriage. In 1938, Mrs. Cantor graduated from the Jackson County Central High School and in 1958 received her Bachelors in Education from the Tennessee Polytechnic Institute in Cookeville, now Tennessee Technological University. Her forty-one year teaching career began in 1940 at Beech Grove School, a one teacher school. She also taught at Gladdice, Cubb Creek, Funns Branch, Wartrace, Hendersonville and Gainesboro Elementary where she taught the fourth grade. A talented artist, she was the traveling art teacher for the Jackson County school system before her retirement in 1981. She was a life long member of the Bagdad Church of Christ having been baptized in 1936 at the age of 15. Surviving is her only child, a daughter: Fay Cantor Leonard, of the Gladdice community; five grandchildren: Ronnie Leonard Jr., of Gladdice, Eric Leonard and wife, Lesa, of Bagdad, Daniel Leonard and Dianne Sevier, of Brush Creek, Benjamin Leonard and wife, Michelle, of Gladdice, Melissa Leonard, of the Turkey Creek community; ten great-grandchildren: Ronnie Jr.'s children, Ronnie III and Matthew; Eric's children, Nicole Leonard Gunter and husband, Brian, Ethan and John William; Daniel's children, Blake and Garrison; Ben's children, Anna Brooke and Natalie; Melissa's child, Allison Rae.
Family and friends will remember Helen as a devoted wife and loving, nurturing mother and grandmother and a loyal friend. She was a dedicated teacher, loved and respected by her students, a fabulous cook and talented seamstress.
The Cantor family requests memorials to the Witcher Cemetery Mowing Fund or the Bagdad Church of Christ. SANDERSON of KEMPVILLE
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Married Clyde Cantor on July 8, 1942 in Walker County, Georgia.
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