St. Clair County Obits

HELEN AUDRA PEERY SALMON

Clinton Daily Democrat
28 July 2004
Helen Audra Peery Salmon, 83, Creighton, was born February 24, 1921, at Vista, the only child of Fred and Essie (Dixon) Peery, and died Tuesday, July 27, 2004, at Golden Valley Hospital, Clinton. She was raised on a farm near Vista and graduated from Osceola High School. She then attended Central Missouri State Teachers college two years before beginning her career as a teacher in St. Clair County. She married Garnett A. Salmon November 2, 1940, in Buffalo, Missouri. They lived on a farm north of Creighton. She taught school at Bee Branch in their neighborhood. She was a 4-H leader. Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband on September 27, 2002. She is survived by her son G. A. and his wife Joyce, and her three grandsons, Terry and his wife LeAnne, Travis and his wife Angie, and Tim. Funeral services will be 10 a.m. Friday, July 30, at dickey Funeral Home, Garden City, with interment in Grant Cemetery, near Creighton.