Hellen Louise Shewmaker

Funeral services for Hellen Louise (Baxley) Shewmaker, 81 of Mabank will be held at Anderson-Clayton Bros. Funeral Home with Danny Weems officiating. Interment will follow at Shiloh Cemetery with Will Merriman, Charles Tyre, Chris Tyre, Joshua Shewmaker, Dustin Shewmaker and B.J. Shewmaker serving as pallbearers.

Ms. Shewmaker passed away with family at her side on March 9,2022 at her home in Mabank, Texas. She was born in Mabank, Texas on September 10, 1940, the daughter of R.V. Baxley and Mary Odell (Donehoo) Baxley. She married James Shewmaker on September 26, 1958 in Kaufman, TX.


Hellen is survived by her daughter Cynthia Louise Shewmaker of Mabank, Texas; daughter Teresa Lynn Shewmaker-Hutchins of Mabank, Texas; daughter Amanda Lynn Shewmaker-Everett and husband Jason of Mabank, Texas;  son James Ray Shewmaker and wife Hazel Kathleen of Eustace, Texas; sister Mary Ann Baxley-Jones and husband Dewey of Athens, Texas; brother in law Michael Joe Shewmaker and wife Ethel of Mabank, Texas; four grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren, numerous nieces, nephews, extended family and friends.

She was preceded in death by her husband, James Shewmaker, parents, her grandsons Christopher Allen Shewmaker and Richard Gene Hutchins, and her granddaughter Geneva Annette Gorum.