Helen Beatress Zuck, daughter of the late Benjamin Thomas and Eva May Schumpert Sanders, was born in Parma, Missouri, on July 4, 1929, and passed away at the Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff on April 20, 2012, at the age of 82 years, 9 months, and 16 days.

Mrs. Zuck had grown up in Parma and had lived the past 20 years in Dexter. She was employed by Kneibert Clinic as a janitor. She was a member of the Faith Fellowship Bible Way Church in Dexter.

On November 22, 1947, she was married to Francis Zuck in East Prairie. He preceded her in death on January 6, 1992.

Surviving are one daughter, Brenda Sue Chaney of Dexter and two sons, Francis Zuck, Jr. of Bellevue, Ohio, Travis Wayne Zuck of Hutchenson, Kansas; by nine grandchildren; five great grandchildren, one great-great grandchild; and by two brothers, T J Sanders of Bloomfield and Charles Sanders of Cape Girardeau; and one sister, Katherine Baker of Joplin. Other family and friends also survive her.

She was preceded in death by three children in infancy, one daughter, Janice Zuck and one brother, Thomas James Sanders.

Visitation will be held after 11 a.m., Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at the Watkins and Sons Funeral Home in Dexter.

Funeral Services will be held at 1 p.m.,Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at the Watkins and Sons Funeral Home in Dexter with the Rev. Shirley McRoy of Dexter officiating.

Interment will be in the East Prairie Memorial Park Cemetery in East Prairie with Watkins ND Sons Funeral Service of Dexter in charge of arrangements.