Helen Perrin

Helen Hancock Perrin was born August 5, 1919 on the family farm to Charlie Rankin Lyle and Florence Louise Slagle Lyle in Ross County, Ohio. Helen had two sisters; Grace Dowler (deceased) and Louise Lucas (deceased). She enjoyed being raised on the farm, learning homemaking skills from her mother and tagging along with her dad.

Helen graduated from Wayne High School in Good Hope, Ohio in a graduating class of twelve. Her passion throughout her entire life was music, especially singing for her Lord. She started singing around the age of five and continued until her 92nd birthday. She encouraged all of her children to use their musical talents for the Lord. Helen played and taught piano and organ and also directed church choirs and cantatas through the years. In her later years, she felt the real passion in her life was the privilege of prayer and became a great prayer warrior for her family, friends and church family.

Helen was a natural mother; loving, teaching, mentoring, encouraging and praying for her children. She also filled in the gap of "mothering" some of her friends' children during times of stress, hospitalizations and death. All of her children feel blessed to have had her as their mother.

Helen married Charles Adrian Hancock in Columbus Ohio and their children were Florence Adrienne Hancock Haines (husband John), Charlie Lyle Hancock (wife Ruth), Susanne Kathryn Hancock Miller (husband Kenneth), Larry Michael John Hancock (wife Linda), Larry's infant twin brother (deceased),Jonathan Robert Hancock (wife Judith), Nancy Helen Hancock (deceased), Timothy Coleman Hancock (wife Sherrie) and Ronda Mae Heise Van Hook (husband Mark). Adrian and Helen were married for 38 years.

Helen's first husband died in 1976 and she married Eldred Leland Perrin in 1979. They lived twelve years in Fairborn, Ohio and attended and served at Grand Heights Baptist Church. Eldred had two daughters from a previous marriage; Lois Schneider (husband Bill, deceased) and Bonnie Bird (husband John, deceased). Helen immensely enjoyed and was proud of all her children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and great great grandchild. She felt especially close to her other "children" whom she was privileged to help "mother"; Sherrie, LeiLani and Lillian, (children of her best friend, Violet Archibald), Beverly Brown, Judy, Marland and Shirley Johnstown and also, her nephew and wife, Jim and Patty Lucas.

In 2000,Helen moved to Mountain Grove, Missouri and attended First Baptist Church for fifteen years. She dearly loved her church family and was still active in the church until 2014. She is survived by one sister-in-law Sarah Miller of Columbus, Ohio, four sons, five daughters, nine nephews, seven nieces, 24 grandchildren, 36 great grandchildren and one great, great grandchild.

Visitation: Thursday, September 24, 2015 at First Baptist Church of Mountain Grove in Mountain Grove, Missouri from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM.

Funeral Service: Friday, September 25, 2015 at First Baptist Church Of Mountain Grove in Mountain Grove, Missouri at 2:00 PM.

Burial: Graveside Service Monday, September 28th, 2015, at 2:00 PM at Beckett Cemetery, Commercial Point, Ohio.