March 18, 2024

Helen L. Ratliff

Dec. 3, 2016

Helen L. (Romans) Ratliff, 80, of Newton, died on Saturday, Dec. 3, 2016, at the Newton Village Nursing Home in Newton. Her funeral service with an Eastern Star service will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 7 at the First United Methodist Church, 210 N. Second Ave. E. in Newton. The family will greet friends from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 6 at the church. Burial will be at the Newton Union Cemetery in Newton. Memorials to the First United Methodist Church or to the Newton Chapter #100 OES (Order of the Eastern Star) may be left at the church at the time of the visitation and service or at the Wallace Family Funeral Home. Memorials may also be mailed to the funeral home, please add, Attn: Ratliff Family on the envelope.

Those left to cherish Helen’s memory are her children, Pam Ratliff of Newton and Steve (Ann) Ratliff of Baxter; grandsons, David Ratliff of Baxter and Andy (Katie) Ratliff of Baxter; her great-grandchildren, Ben and Riley Ratliff of Baxter; sister, Jane (Tom) Tesar of Tama; sisters-in-law, Marie Ratliff of Nashville, Tenn., Dorothy (David) Butler of Unionville, Mo., and Mari (Alton) Denney of Ashland City, Tenn.; and her many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her grandparents, Charles and Isadore Steinman and Clyde and Mary Romans; her parents, Carl and Edna Romans, Sr.; husband, Chuck in 2004; brothers, Don Malson, Sam and Carl, Jr. Romans; sisters, Elsie Fae Malson, Beverly Duncan and Hazel Kleinendorst; and nephew, Dennis Glade.

The Wallace Family Funeral Homein Newton is handling the service arrangements.