Geneva "Beth" Helzer

May 9, 1924 - March 27, 2015

Funeral services for GENEVA E. "BETH" HELZER, 90, will be held at 10am Tuesday, March 31, 2015 at the First Baptist Church with Reverend Rick Cederholm officiating. Burial will follow in the Valley View Cemetery. Memorials may be made to the First Baptist Church. Visitation will be Monday from 3pm to 5pm at the funeral home and the casket will be open prior to the service at the church. A full obituary will follow. Arrangements are under the direction of the Colyer Funeral Home and friends may send condolences to the family at www.colyerfuneralhome.com. Geneva was born May 9, 1924 in Vinata, Oklahoma the daughter of Clarence and Josie (Burress) Hill. At an early age the family moved to Torrington, Wyoming where she attended school and graduated Torrington High School in 1942 She received a part time scholarship to Barnes Business College in Denver, Colorado but decided not to accept much to the disappointment of her parents. She worked in Torrington for Kellam Drug, and the Gambles Store. She became engaged to her high school sweetheart Arthur Helzer in June 1942 an they were married October 21, 1945 at the farm of Art’s parents in Torrington. In the spring of 1946 they moved to their first farm south of Yoder, Wyoming, farming there until 1950. In 1952 they purchased a second farm southwest of Yoder. They lived there until 1970 when Art died. She remained on the farm until 1973 and then moved to Torrington. She worked at the Vandel Drug for John and Joyce Vandel as the head cashier and helped them celebrate twenty-five years of being in business on Main Street. She moved into an apartment owned by Berea Russell and lived there for twenty-one years while employed at Vandel Drug. She moved to the Golden Manor in 1990 and later entered Community Health Care Center in 2014. Geneva was the longest standing member of the First Baptist Church. She was active in the church and held different offices, Sunday School teacher, Deaconate board, White Cross Chairman, and Circle Choir Chairman. She loved to sing and was faithful and dedicated to her Lord, family, church and friends. She accepted the Lord into her life in 1942 at eighteen years of age. Geneva is survived by son Bradley A. Helzer and a daughter Marsha Beth (Dick) Yates all of Torrington; a sister, Margie Loveland of Cheyenne, WY; four grandchildren Darin Yates, James Wesley Helzer, Timothy James Helzer, and Chasity Renee Medina; and three great granddaughters, Dezi, Atheena, and Minah. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband Arthur; one infant son; five sisters Kathryn Harkins, Juanita May Carter, Anna Louise Hutchinson, Lillian Ellen Webb, and Myrtle Hill as an infant; and four brothers Floyd Eugene Hill, Lester C. Hill, Alfred LeRoy Hill, and Lloyd Gene "Dude" Hill.