Helen (Halbert) Woodward

Born:  May 20, 1894, Coleman, Coleman County, Texas

Died:  April 27, 1979, Coleman, Coleman County, Texas

Buried:  Coleman Cemetery, Coleman, Texas

   
Helen Halbert Woodward

The four children of Halkert and Mary Pauline Halbert lived to maturity, but none is living today.  The youngest child of Halkert and Mary was Helen Rebecca; married Garland Woodward (1891-1949) in Coleman, where he was a practicing attorney for many years, and where Helen was a teacher with the Coleman Independent School District until her retirement in the mid-1960’s.  Helen and Garland had three children: Halbert (1918), Warren (1923), and Sara Pauline (1928).  Halbert, also popularly called “Hal,” also was an attorney in Coleman prior to his appointment as a Federal Judge in 1968.  He is married to the former Dawn Blair, and they have resided in Lubbock since 1968.  Their two children are Halbert (or Hobby) (1947), who in 1982 commenced his practice of pediatrics in Brownwood, where he lives with his wife and sons; and Garland Benton (1953) who is an attorney in San Angelo, where he makes his home with his wife and daughter.  Warren, the second son of Helen and Garland, also is married and the father of two adult children, Tony (1953) and Barbara (1959), all of whom make their homes in Dallas.  Sara Pauline is the youngest child of Helen and Garland.  She lives in Coleman, where he husband, Ray Barnett, is a land surveyor; they are the parents of Ted (1953), who lives in Houston, and Helen Rebecca (1959), who is a school teacher and resident of Stephenville, where she has lived with her husband, Bill Merryman, also a former Colemanite, since 1977.

(A History of Coleman County and Its People, 1985 - edited by Judia and Ralph Terry, and Vena Bob Gates - used by permission.)


 
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