Services for Helen Jewel Barton Tompkins were held last week at Faith Baptist Church in Brownsboro.

Interment was at Jennings Mountain Cemetery. She passed away on Tuesday, March 9, 2010, in Houston, Texas.

Helen Jewel Barton Tompkins was born Oct. 16, 1913, in Brownsboro, Texas, to Minnie Eugenia “Genie” Holiman Barton and Horace Chilton Barton.

She had three younger sisters: Jack, Mary Lou, and Betty Jean. She married Troy Tompkins in 1932, and they had one son, Larry Barton Tompkins.

Helen’s greatest joy was cooking for the family she loved. She even made “tea cakes” for the great-grandchildren the week before she passed away.

Helen is survived by her sister, Mary Lou Moss of Brownsboro; brotherin law, Joe Fitzgerald of Brownsboro; son and daughter-in-law, Larry and Mary Tompkins of Houston; grandchildren, Kathy Naumann of Plano, Bridget and Tom Tomlinson of Houston, and Mark Tompkins of San Francisco; great-grandchildren, Jordan and Theresa Naumann and Geoffrey and Avery Tomlinson.