Helen Haskins

Helen Potter Haskins passed away on Friday, June 19, 2020 at 2:12 p.m. at Acadia General Hospital in Crowley, La. at the age of 86.

Helen (Potter) Haskins was born in Fleming on Feb. 17, 1934 into a family of wheat farmers in the small town of Haxtun, making her 86 years old. She met her husband, Larry Haskins, when she was four years old and they married when she was 17. Eventually they made their way south to Marrero, La., a town on the west bank of New Orleans, where they raised their four daughters. The couple moved to Crowley in 1998 to establish a home for their retirement years.

In 2005...