Helen Simpson Redmon's Obituary
Helen Simpson Redmon, forever 19, of Denver, passed away on March 9, 2024.
Known as “Honey” to the ones who loved her most, Helen Simpson Redmon was born on May 14, 1934 in Asheville, NC. Born to her beloved parents Pauline and Joe Simpson, Helen grew up playing in the woods and beating boys in basketball games. In 1955, Honey married the love of her life, Harold, and they began creating their beautiful life together. In 1971, Helen and Harold moved to the lake, the place that Honey preferred over any other. Helen belonged to Lake Norman Baptist Church and loved her Sunday School class and church family. She was the self-proclaimed “best skier”, having perfected her skiing skills after many, many days on Lake Norman. Among her azaleas in the beautiful yard she and Unc grew and cared for together or riding her jet ski beside Unc on the lake, Honey was happy. She loved to host “the kids” (the adults who were kids in the youth group led by Harold back in the early 1960s) for a day at the lake and family for holiday dinners with the most gorgeous table you’ve ever seen. Honey liked “things in order” and had a way to make everything she touched beautiful.
While she loved these leisurely activities, Honey was also a successful career woman who proved herself time and again in the then-male-dominated world of insurance.
She was named President of the North Carolina Insurance Women’s Association in 66-67 and practiced insurance for over 50 years.
Honey got her nickname during Polly’s childhood. Unc’s deep love for his beloved resulted in him calling her terms of endearment instead of by her first name. This happened so frequently that Polly thought her name was Honey. In the dictionary, one of the definitions of “honey” is the quality or state of being sweet. To know Helen was to know goodness, kindness, and sweetness. Helen’s long-time nickname couldn’t sum up Harold’s deep love for her and the essence of who she was more perfectly.
Honey was preceded in death by her parents, Pauline and Joe, and her siblings, Joe, Clarence, Bobby, and Willie Mae.
Honey is survived by her beloved, dedicated, and cherished husband of 68 years, Harold, their niece Polly (Clyde), great-niece, Amanda (Jason), great-nephew, David (Chelsea), great-great-nieces Evie Quinn and Clara, and many other nieces and nephews. Some of her last words were to “just keep telling the girls about the good times”, and her surviving family will do just that so that she continues to live on in the hearts and memories of her two favorite after-school visitors.
Funeral services will be held sometime in the (hopefully far) future, as Helen’s and Harold’s services will be just the way they lived: together.
James Funeral Home is assisting the family, online condolences may be made at www.jamesfuneralhomelkn.com.
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