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Portrait of Leon Charles Helton
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In loving memory of

Leon Charles Helton

December 12, 1941 – August 1, 2022
Lived 80 years
Macedonia Landmark Missonary Baptist Church · Pumpkin Center, Louisiana
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1941
Born December 12
1947
Leon was 6 when Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier
1951
Leon was 10 when "I Love Lucy" debuted on CBS
1962
Leon was 21 when the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear war
1976
Leon was 35 when America celebrated its Bicentennial
1981
Leon was 40 when MTV began broadcasting
1995
Leon was 54 when "Toy Story" became the first fully computer-animated film
2007
Leon was 66 when the first iPhone went on sale
2014
Leon was 73 when the Ice Bucket Challenge went viral
2020
Leon was 79 when SpaceX launched astronauts into orbit for the first time
2022
Passed away August 1, age 80
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Hope Starkey 92w

Raz favorite memories

Tonight I asked Raz before bed what his favorite memory of Pops was. He said he loved eating oreos, animal cookies and cheetoos in the bed while watching TV with Pops. He said that Pops was very funny and always made him laugh and he was good at making him happy.

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Hope Starkey 93w

Boat ride with Pops

So Mike and Pops had been working on his boat. He wanted to take it out. We went somewhere down the road from our house. We had Zac and Ali with us. We road the boat to the point I was all kinds of turned around. Ali stayed on Pops lap the whole time and everytime we stopped Mike was getting on to Zac to sit down lol. We weren't out there long but it was a nice day and great for a boat ride. Pops talked about making more plans to go out riding moreamd even oit to the camp. But when we got home and they found something else was wrong and was working on a plan to fix it.

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