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1:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Monday, April 12, 2021

Snow Hill Cemetery

1112 Kingold Blvd.

Snow Hill, North Carolina, United States

Monday

April

Graveside Service

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Monday, April 12, 2021

Snow Hill Cemetery

1112 Kingold Blvd.

Snow Hill, North Carolina, United States

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Friday, April 16, 2021

Condolences for your loss. I hoped to share a personal story which happened yesterday evening, a week after the passing of Mrs. Helen. My name is Aaron Sullivan, and I am a US History teacher in El Cajon Ca. I am recovering from recent back surgery and took the opportunity to walk my neighborhood which includes El Cajon Cemetery. I had never explored it prior to last night. As I was walking I felt a “compulsion” to explore a far section of the graveyard and came upon a dirt covered marker. Seeing that is was a veteran, and US Marine, I did not feel the marker was “squared away” enough for the honor befitting a Marine Gunnery Sgt. I cleared away the dirt and took this single photo. After returning home, I decided to do some historical research on this veteran. I found Mrs. Helen’s obit, and saw she had passed 50 years to the day as Gunny Mitchem. I can only imagine the odds of me being in that cemetery to begin with that day, let alone to uncover this one marker on this day. I wanted to express my thanks for your families service and sacrifice, and my sorrows for the loss of not only Mrs. Helen, but for Gunny Mitchem who passed in an accident at home after serving this country in two faraway wars. I feel very honored to have been chosen to share this story. Also know that as a teacher, I have shared this story with 160 of my US history students today. They have come away with a better sense of what the true meaning of American sacrifice is, and a further lesson that “freedom is not free.” My greatest sympathies for your loss.

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Helen Virginia Stallings Mitchem

1931 - 2021

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