COAST, FRIENDS SAY GOODBYE TO NONPOLITICAL HELMS BROTHER: Newspaper Obituary and Death Notice
Sun Herald, The (Biloxi, MS) - November 25, 1998
Deceased Name: COAST, FRIENDS SAY GOODBYE TO NONPOLITICAL HELMS BROTHER
Family and friends on Tuesday remembered the life of Wriston A. Helms Sr., a well-known Pascagoula resident who was also the brother of outspoken U.S. Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina.
''He was a wonderful brother,'' said Sen. Helms. ''Nobody ever had a finer brother than I had.''
Wriston Helms, 81, died Sunday in Pascagoula. He was buried in Jackson County Memorial Park after a funeral at the First Baptist Church of Pascagoula.
Helms moved to Pascagoula in the 1950s as an executive with the F.W. Woolworth Co. After he retired, he worked at Lomax Drugs on Market Street.
''He did everything at the drugstore except fill prescriptions,'' said Jackson County Administrator George Touart. ''He was always fun to talk to, but I never heard him mention his famous relative. I found out that they were brothers by accident.''
Like Touart, most of Helms' friends said they never heard him brag about his more famous younger brother.
But the two talked on the telephone often, and they were so close that Wriston Helms named his youngest daughter Jessie.
Sen. Helms, who is one of the nation's staunchest conservatives, was not able to attend his brother's funeral and burial.
''I recently had surgery that involved a double knee replacement, and that would have made it hard to travel down there,'' Helms said in a telephone interview from Raleigh, N.C. ''Both my sister-in-law and my niece recommended that I stay home.''
After Wriston Helms retired from Lomax Drugs, he worked at the Old Spanish Fort as a volunteer.
Ann Hebert, a Pascagoula resident who is active in the Republican Party, said she first met him there. She recalled that ''he looked and sounded so much like Sen. Helms that it startled you.''
''He was wonderful as a volunteer at the fort because he knew that place upside down,'' said Hebert. ''But he never got involved in local politics.''
Sun Herald, The (Biloxi, MS) - November 25, 1998
Deceased Name: COAST, FRIENDS SAY GOODBYE TO NONPOLITICAL HELMS BROTHER
Family and friends on Tuesday remembered the life of Wriston A. Helms Sr., a well-known Pascagoula resident who was also the brother of outspoken U.S. Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina.
''He was a wonderful brother,'' said Sen. Helms. ''Nobody ever had a finer brother than I had.''
Wriston Helms, 81, died Sunday in Pascagoula. He was buried in Jackson County Memorial Park after a funeral at the First Baptist Church of Pascagoula.
Helms moved to Pascagoula in the 1950s as an executive with the F.W. Woolworth Co. After he retired, he worked at Lomax Drugs on Market Street.
''He did everything at the drugstore except fill prescriptions,'' said Jackson County Administrator George Touart. ''He was always fun to talk to, but I never heard him mention his famous relative. I found out that they were brothers by accident.''
Like Touart, most of Helms' friends said they never heard him brag about his more famous younger brother.
But the two talked on the telephone often, and they were so close that Wriston Helms named his youngest daughter Jessie.
Sen. Helms, who is one of the nation's staunchest conservatives, was not able to attend his brother's funeral and burial.
''I recently had surgery that involved a double knee replacement, and that would have made it hard to travel down there,'' Helms said in a telephone interview from Raleigh, N.C. ''Both my sister-in-law and my niece recommended that I stay home.''
After Wriston Helms retired from Lomax Drugs, he worked at the Old Spanish Fort as a volunteer.
Ann Hebert, a Pascagoula resident who is active in the Republican Party, said she first met him there. She recalled that ''he looked and sounded so much like Sen. Helms that it startled you.''
''He was wonderful as a volunteer at the fort because he knew that place upside down,'' said Hebert. ''But he never got involved in local politics.''
COAST, FRIENDS SAY GOODBYE TO NONPOLITICAL HELMS BROTHER: Newspaper Obituary and Death Notice
Sun Herald, The (Biloxi, MS) - November 25, 1998
Deceased Name: COAST, FRIENDS SAY GOODBYE TO NONPOLITICAL HELMS BROTHER
Family and friends on Tuesday remembered the life of Wriston A. Helms Sr., a well-known Pascagoula resident who was also the brother of outspoken U.S. Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina.
''He was a wonderful brother,'' said Sen. Helms. ''Nobody ever had a finer brother than I had.''
Wriston Helms, 81, died Sunday in Pascagoula. He was buried in Jackson County Memorial Park after a funeral at the First Baptist Church of Pascagoula.
Helms moved to Pascagoula in the 1950s as an executive with the F.W. Woolworth Co. After he retired, he worked at Lomax Drugs on Market Street.
''He did everything at the drugstore except fill prescriptions,'' said Jackson County Administrator George Touart. ''He was always fun to talk to, but I never heard him mention his famous relative. I found out that they were brothers by accident.''
Like Touart, most of Helms' friends said they never heard him brag about his more famous younger brother.
But the two talked on the telephone often, and they were so close that Wriston Helms named his youngest daughter Jessie.
Sen. Helms, who is one of the nation's staunchest conservatives, was not able to attend his brother's funeral and burial.
''I recently had surgery that involved a double knee replacement, and that would have made it hard to travel down there,'' Helms said in a telephone interview from Raleigh, N.C. ''Both my sister-in-law and my niece recommended that I stay home.''
After Wriston Helms retired from Lomax Drugs, he worked at the Old Spanish Fort as a volunteer.
Ann Hebert, a Pascagoula resident who is active in the Republican Party, said she first met him there. She recalled that ''he looked and sounded so much like Sen. Helms that it startled you.''
''He was wonderful as a volunteer at the fort because he knew that place upside down,'' said Hebert. ''But he never got involved in local politics.''
Sun Herald, The (Biloxi, MS) - November 25, 1998
Deceased Name: COAST, FRIENDS SAY GOODBYE TO NONPOLITICAL HELMS BROTHER
Family and friends on Tuesday remembered the life of Wriston A. Helms Sr., a well-known Pascagoula resident who was also the brother of outspoken U.S. Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina.
''He was a wonderful brother,'' said Sen. Helms. ''Nobody ever had a finer brother than I had.''
Wriston Helms, 81, died Sunday in Pascagoula. He was buried in Jackson County Memorial Park after a funeral at the First Baptist Church of Pascagoula.
Helms moved to Pascagoula in the 1950s as an executive with the F.W. Woolworth Co. After he retired, he worked at Lomax Drugs on Market Street.
''He did everything at the drugstore except fill prescriptions,'' said Jackson County Administrator George Touart. ''He was always fun to talk to, but I never heard him mention his famous relative. I found out that they were brothers by accident.''
Like Touart, most of Helms' friends said they never heard him brag about his more famous younger brother.
But the two talked on the telephone often, and they were so close that Wriston Helms named his youngest daughter Jessie.
Sen. Helms, who is one of the nation's staunchest conservatives, was not able to attend his brother's funeral and burial.
''I recently had surgery that involved a double knee replacement, and that would have made it hard to travel down there,'' Helms said in a telephone interview from Raleigh, N.C. ''Both my sister-in-law and my niece recommended that I stay home.''
After Wriston Helms retired from Lomax Drugs, he worked at the Old Spanish Fort as a volunteer.
Ann Hebert, a Pascagoula resident who is active in the Republican Party, said she first met him there. She recalled that ''he looked and sounded so much like Sen. Helms that it startled you.''
''He was wonderful as a volunteer at the fort because he knew that place upside down,'' said Hebert. ''But he never got involved in local politics.''
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