Helen Riddle, who joined FUMC on April 10, 1938, entered the next stage of life on Friday, September 3, 2010 at the age of 82.

Her service is scheduled for:

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

11:00am

Here at FUMC

Born October 29, 1927, to Will and Audrey McKemie of Wichita Falls, Helen attended college at Sweetbriar in Richmond, Va., and graduated from SMU in 1948, as a member of Pi Beta Phi. She married her high school sweetheart, Dr. R.D. “Piggy” Riddle, in August 1948. Her husband and family were Helen’s primary interests, but when her children were grown, she started her 14 year career with Hirschi Realtors. She was widowed in 1996 and retired from Hirschi in 2002.

Helen was a founding member of Unity Club and remained a member for 62 years. She was an active member of First United Methodist Church and Fidelis Sunday School class, spent many years helping with her husband’s work with Scouts, volunteered her time with Junior League of Wichita Falls until she became a sustainer emeritus, participated with Pi Beta Phi Alumnae Assoc., enjoyed playing piano, bridge, and spending time with her family and many friends.

She was preceded in death by her parents and husband, as well as daughter Pam Lamell. She is survived by her son, Dr. Bill Riddle, of Nashville, Tenn., daughter Kay Thomas and her husband Bill of Coppell, Tex., brother Bob McKemie of Dallas, and grandchildren Patrick Riddle, Kyle and Audrey Thomas, and Josef Lamell.

Memorials may be made to

• First United Methodist Church
  909 10th St
  Wichita Falls, TX 76301
• National M.S. Society
  1100 New York Ave. NW, Suite 660,
  Washington, DC 20005.

Lunns Colonial Funeral Home will be providing the arrangements.

Leave a note below about what Helen meant to you.

Our very own Kiyo Watanabe and his wife Chiemi have been honored by being invited to participate in public radio event at the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, Texas.  The event known as Pipedreams Live! will take place on Monday, September 13, 2010 at 7:00pm (doors will open at 6:15pm).

Kiyo and Chiemi will play a duet of Handel’s “Arrival of the Queen of Sheba,” and as another great honor, Kiyo will get to play one of his own pieces, “2 Hymn Preludes in Jazz Style.”

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for more information!

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Special thanks go to Mendie Brauner, Tonja Denson, Kim English, Pam Featherston, Hannah Pellikan, Sarah Pellikan, and Kayla Vaughn for helping to decorate hallways in the church to get us ready for VBS, coming July 12-16.

If you see one of these volunteers, please tell them, “THANK YOU!”

Tonja Denson & Kayla Vaughn decorating a Hallway in the Undercroft!

Mendie Brauner & Pam Featherston making a measurement for hall decorations on the 2nd Floor!

Kim English preparing paper to go on the wall of the 2nd floor hallway!

Kayla Vaughn & Hannah Pellikan really got into their work of painting with flourescent paint. They got it all over themselves!

Members of FUMC and the Exodus Sunday School Class participated in the Bowl for Kids Sake benefiting Big Brothers Big Sisters.  Their bowling team, Real Housewives of Canyon Trails, won the “Best Team Theme!”

The team members included Shari Schultz, Susan Tate, Amber Schacter, Emily Hays, and Teresa Rose.

Thank you for your service in our community and CONGRATULATIONS!

June 9, 2010 marked a first for the North Texas Annual Conference as, in addition to the normal business of the conference, a mission work day was held to help members of the conference (including our Bishop, District Superintendents, and Extended Cabinet) practice what we preach.  FUMC folk participated in all of the projects:

• Cooking Breakfast (Connie Rosenburg & Erica Conner)
• Painting the Riverside Cemetery Fence (Erica Conner, Rev. Pellikan, and children of Adventures in Mission (AIM-1))
• Texas Ramp Project 1 (Rev. Sims)
• Texas Ramp Project 2 (Alan Ballard & former Youth Pastor, Dana Coker)
• Texas Ramp Project 3 (Elizabeth Yeager)
• Imagine No Malaria Car Wash (Youth of FUMC)
  In fact Jeff Ginn and our youth spearheaded this event that raised over $300 to help eradicate malaria on the continent of Africa by 2015)

Check out pictures below:

Danny Kislin is no stranger to FUMC, as he has taught many Adult Sunday School and Confirmation Classes about the religion of Jesus: Judaism. Likewise, he has attended worship here, often, with his wife, Mimi and daughter Danielle.

Danny’s training in his Jewish faith began as a child in Hebrew School, and it continued in a seminary in Israel as a young adult. Recently, at the encouragement of the House of Jacob Synagogue, where he has been serving as the Spiritual Leader for several years, he took up his studies again through the Rabbinical Seminary International.

Having now completed his studies, Danny will be ordained a Rabbi in a ceremony on July 1, 2010 at The Actors Temple in New York City. That is a great accomplishment!

CONGRATULATIONS DANNY!