Helen Parker Chocklett

11/25/1933 ~ 11/21/2009 Helen Parker Chocklett, of Raleigh, N.C., passed away on Saturday, November 21, 2009. Born on November 25, 1933, in Roanoke, Va., she was the youngest child of M. Lacy and Helen Karns Parker. She graduated from Jefferson High School in Roanoke, attended Randolph Macon Women's College in Lynchburg, Va., and completed the course for College Women at Katharine Gibbs Secretarial School in New York City, N.Y. She married Harold Edward Chocklett, of Bonsack, Va., in 1955 and moved to Charlotte, N.C., where he was employed by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. While her children were in high school she went to work part time for Celanese Corporation in Charlotte for several years before going full time with AC Controls Company, also in Charlotte, as Purchasing Manager for the next 28 years until retirement at 65 in 1998. She was predeceased by her husband in 1995 after 40 years of marriage. Surviving are their daughter, Marcia Montgomery and her husband, Michael, of Alpharetta, Ga.; son, Gregory Chocklett and his wife, Nancy, of Raleigh, N.C.; and four grandchildren, Jessica and Katherine Montgomery, and Parker and Christiana Chocklett. Interment is to be in Roanoke, Va., next to her husband, at Fairview Cemetery, in the M.L. Parker burial plots, 1 p.m. on Wednesday, November 25, 2009. Arrangements by Brown-Wynne Funeral Home, Millbrook Road, Raleigh, N.C., 919-876-6900.