Mrs. Elcener Dale Helaire

Celebration of Life will go forth Saturday, September 28, 2024, 4:00 p. m., Winnfield Memorial Funeral Home Chapel, 318 North Street, Natchitoches, LA 71457.  Burial will follow immediately in Lawrence Serenity Sanctum.

Elcener Dale Helaire the youngest of three children was born to the union of Phillip Denison Williams and Edna Steen Jackson Williams on November 11,1942 in Natchitoches, Louisiana. Her twelve (12) years of school were spent at Central High School in Natchitoches, Louisiana. Elcener Dale was an honor graduate of the class of 1960. She attended Grambling College in Grambling, Louisiana. 

On January 7, 1974, she united in Holy Matrimony to Tommy Lee Helaire. As a result of this marriage not only did God bless her with a good husband and provider. He also blessed her with eight (8) adorable children. These children are from Tommy Lee’s 1st marriage (the first wife was deceased). Was this an easy easy job? No! not at all, but God knew exactly what he was doing. Elcener Dale has worked in various jobs, but the job she enjoyed the most, worked the hardest, and the longest was trying to make sure that these eight little ones would one day grow up to be intelligent, obedient, respectable and God-fearing.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Phillip Denison Williams and Edna Steen Jackson Williams, her husband Tommy Lee Helaire, her only brother Ralph Lee Williams, her on sister Elsie Marie Williams Huey, a grandson Aberhim Helaire, a granddaughter Jamelah Renae Slate, and her adopted sister Lillie Bradley Helaire.

She leaves to cherish her memories four daughters Emma Helaire Slate Byrd(Danny), Barbara Helaire Owens(Gordon, Sr.) of Natchitoches, LA, Kimberly Ann Helaire(Victor) and Shuntell Felicia Helaire of Houston, TX; three sons Albert Helaire of Natchitoches, LA, Donald Ray Helaire of Houston, TX and Jerry Lynn Helaire(Andrea) of Monroe, LA; four sister-in-laws  Mary Helaire Roberson of DeRidder, LA, Camilla Helaire Cook of Humble, TX, Ruth Helaire LaCaze(Clarence) of Natchitoches, LA, Rosie Helaire Williams(Clyde) of Shreveport, LA; nineteen(19) grandchildren and twenty-seven(27) great grandchildren; her adopted granddaughter Emma Grace Helaire and her two children Alasiah Madriah Helaire and Ocietric LeTrell Ficklin, Jr,; three nieces and two nephews from her adopted sister and a host of friends and family