Helen Jo Land

Helen Jo Land, 96, of Clarendon died Friday, April 14, 2023, in Claude.

Services will be 2:00 p.m. Thursday, April 20, 2023, at the First Baptist Church in Clarendon with Rev. Lance Wood and Steve Ellis officiating. Burial will follow in Citizens Cemetery.

Viewing will be held on Wednesday from 8:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. at Robertson Funeral Directors with family receiving friends for visitation from 5:00-7:00 p.m.

Arrangements are by Robertson Funeral Directors of Clarendon.

Helen was born on April 2, 1927 in Clarendon to George and Lela Cannon Bulman. She married Billy Jack Land on October 17, 1945, in the home of preacher Hal Upchurch, while Billy was home on leave from the Air Force during World War II.

Helen was a graduate of Clarendon High School, Clarendon College and earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from West Texas State University. She began her career as a teller for Farmers State Bank in Clarendon. Later, she went on to teach in Goodnight School, Martin School, and Clarendon Public School where she retired in 1991. Helen loved teaching and never took a day off from her teaching duties.
After retirement, she served as an election judge for the county, volunteered for meals on wheels, and they traveled a lot with her brother, Gene and wife Shirley. Helen also loved to sew, quilt, and work in her garden, but in her lifetime, she never learned to swim and was deathly afraid of water and flying.

Helen dearly loved her sons, grandchildren, great grandchildren, and daughters-in-law.

She was preceded in death by her parents; two brothers, George Bulman, Jr, and Gene Bulman; sister-in-law, Shirley Bulman; sister, Billie Ruth Barbee and brother- in- law Tick; daughter -in-law, Deborah Land and great grandson Jack Land.

Survivors include her husband, Billy Jack of Clarendon; sons, Steve Land of Panhandle and Monte Land and wife Carolyn of Possum Kingdom Lake; grandchildren, Amanda Land of Stephenville, Texas, Mark Land and wife Callie of Panhandle, Texas, Kirk Land and wife Josie and Wesley Land and wife Sarah all of Amarillo, Texas; Great grandchildren; Mackie, Leah, Carly, Joyce and Sawyer due in July.

Family request memorials be made to Donley County Senior Citizens, PO Drawer B, Clarendon, Texas 79226 or First Baptist Church, PO Box 944, Clarendon, Texas 79226.