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Heckart-Gillespie Funeral Home

Helen L. Sparks

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Helen Lareva Sparks, 73, of Sedalia, died Tuesday, November 25, 2003 at Bothwell Regional Health Center.

She was born March 12, 1930, in Parsons, Kansas, daughter of Orville A. and Myrtle Amrine Collins. 

Survivors include a son, Robert Goodnight, of Pleasant Hill; a daughter, Pauline Armstrong, of LaMonte; two brothers, Orville Collins, of Sayre, Oklahoma, and

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Raymond Collins, of Labette, Kansas; five sisters, Bonnie Goodnight, of Dennis, Kansas, Joanne Burris, of Parsons, Kansas, Patty Blackburn, of Labette, Kansas, Wilma Boenenie, of Oklahoma, and Ida May Meyers, of Kansas; five grandchildren; and seven great grandchildren.

There will be no services.

The family suggests memorial contributions to the National Federation for the Blind, 1800 Johnson Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21230.