MARGIE JEANETTE "BOBBIE" BRANTON HELMECKE, 67,
passed away March 22, 1990 in Phoenix, AZ, with
burial in Glendale Memorial Park at Glendale, AZ.
She was born on June 15, 1922 in Tuscola, TX to
Charles & Myrtle Collins Branton. Bobbie attended
Ranger High School in the Class of 1940 at Ranger,
TX and served in the Cadet Nursing Corps during
WWII. She married Walter H. Helmecke, Jr. in 1947.
They lived in Lubbock, TX and Phoenix. Mary Jane
Helmecke was their daughter. Walter died in 1996.
Her siblings were Charla Branton Jones (RHS-1934),
Merle Branton Owens (RHS-1938), and Jane Branton
Nicholson (RHS-1936).