James Strother Helms

1926 - 1959  (32 years)

• Name	James Strother Helms
  Birth	9 Nov 1926	Highland Co., VA   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	drama teacher at the University of Virginia  [1]
  Death	30 Oct 1959	Bucks Elbow Mountain, Crozet, Albemarle Co., VA   [1]
  	Cause: multiple external & internal injuries (Piedmont Airlines Flight 349 DC-3 crash)
  Burial	4 Nov 1959	Clover Creek Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Monterey, Highland Co., VA   [1]
  Person ID	I49491	Meadow Bluff Meanderings
  Last Modified	9 Jan 2020

  
  

  Father	Jeremiah Graham "Jerry" Helms,   b. 27 Aug 1887, Highland Co., VA d. 24 Dec 1969, Staunton, Augusta Co., VA (Age 82 years)
  Mother	Mary Jane Bradshaw,   b. 4 Jun 1890, Highland Co., VA d. 12 May 1972, McDowell, Highland Co., VA (Age 81 years)
  Marriage	14 Dec 1921	Highland Co., VA   [2]
  Family ID	F17253	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  The Highland Recorder, Monterey, VA, Thursday, 5 Nov 1959, p. 1, col. A Helms Services Held Wednesday James S. Helms, 32, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry G. Helms of Clover Creek, near McDowell, was one of the twenty-six persons killed in the crash of a Piedmont Airlines plane in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Waynesboro last Friday. Mr. Helms, a bachelor, was director of the University of Virginia's bureau of school and community drama, a part of the extension division program, and was widely known throughout Virginia for his work in drama production at schools and community theater. He was also an ex-president of the University's drama group, the Virginia Players, and had authored several plays for this organization. A graduate of McDowell High School, Mr. Helms was born Nov. 9, 1928. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia in 1951 and returned after military service to obtain his master degree in 1958. Funeral services were held Wednesday (yesterday) from the Clover Creek Presbyterian Church with burial in the adjoining cemetery. Active pallbearers were Darrell Hicklin, Mason Hamilton, Randolph Bradshaw, Charles T. Bradshaw, Charles Samples Jr., Herbert Hughs Samples, Raymond Helms, Aubrey Powers, Lewis W. Shumate, Charles Helms, Howard Hicklin and Dennis Graham. Honorary pallbearers were Masons and other friends.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1776] Virginia Department of Health, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., Virginia, Death Records, 1912-2014, (http://www.ancestry.com :2015.), death certificate 25558 (1959), James Strother Helms, accessed 9 Jan 2020. (Reliability: 3). [S1700] Virginia, Select Marriages, 1785-1940, ((http://www.ancestry.com : 2013)), accessed 9 Jan 2020), Helms-Bradshaw, 1921, Highland County. (Reliability: 3).