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Helen Ramsey Obituary

Published by Legacy Remembers on Sep. 13, 2024.

Shawnee - Helen Ramsey of Shawnee, KS passed away September 11, 2024 at the age of 97. Helen was born at home in Willard, MO on February 18, 1927, to William and Anna Zimmerman. She attended Willard High School. A member of Sigma Kappa Sorority, she graduated from Southwest Missouri State in 1949 with a degree in business education. She married that same year and started her family. She began her teaching career in 1964 at Willard High School and taught there until her retirement in 1987. Until her move to Shawnee in 2006, Helen lived in Springfield MO. She grew flowers, loved cats, raised cattle, made life-long friends and had a beautiful smile. She was a lovely lady who made the world a better place. Preceded in death by her husband Harold Benjamin Ramsey (1971), her son Chris Ramsey (2001), and her sister Wilma Shelton (2012), survivors include a daughter LeAnne Ramsey, two grandsons Caleb (Mindy) Ramsey and Levi (Sara) Ramsey, and two great-grandchildren (Valkyrie and Julian). Burial at the Springfield National Cemetery in Springfield, MO.

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Marsha (Ryan) Steele

September 17, 2024

Mrs. Ramsey, as we always referred to her with great respect, was an exceptional teacher, who always greeted each student with a smile and created a classroom full of fun and love of learning. She instilled in each of her secretarial practice students a zeal for perfection in performance while displaying a methodology of teaching behaviors full of wit and humor. Her legacy of teaching lives on today in Springfield, Missouri where many of her students continued down a career path driven by early typing and shorthand skills that led to professional positions in health care, legal offices, and large corporations ... all of whom still reminisce about Mrs. Ramsey and her influences. She was a jewel ... and her life will live on through us.