Submitted by Patricia Keenan, July 30, 2009
Helen Marie Vidaurri – died 11 April 2009 – Walters Funeral Home
Funeral services for Helen Marie Vidaurri, age 54, of Oakwood will be held 4:00 P.M. Wednesday, April 15, 2009 in the Walters Buffalo Funeral Home Chapel in Buffalo. Rev. Lee Weiler will officiate at the services. Interment will follow in the Keechi Cemetery near Buffalo.
Visitation will be held Tuesday 2:00 P.M. till 8:00 P.M. with the family present from 6:00 P.M. till 8:00 P.m. at the funeral home and Wednesday 9:00 A. M. till service time.
Helen was born April 12, 1954 in Houston to Conrad and Margie Grubbs Kroll. She had lived the in Oakwood since 1987 and was a food service supervisor at the Oakwood Independent School District. Her family relates that she enjoyed helping other people with their needs before thinking of her own needs. She was a special person to the children at her school also assisting them with whatever they needed. She was preceded in death by her fathers Conrad Kroll and Eldridge Cooper and her mother Margie Cooper. Helen died Saturday evening April 11, 2009 in Madisonville just a few hours before her fifty fifth birthday.
Survivors include her husband Lee Vidaurri of Oakwood, Daughter Kimberly Brooks and husband Delmar of Marshall, Texas, Sons, Keith Pearson and Amy of Palestine, Jimmy Price and Meagan of Oakwood, Brothers, Archie Kroll of Cleveland, Conrad Kroll of Montgomery, Terry Cooper of Huffman, Billy Cooper of Huntsville, Sisters: Marylyn Schultz of Montgomery, Jo Ann Sites of Centerville, and Sherry Dunn of Centerville. She is also survived by fourteen grandchildren.