Helen L. Hover, 86, formerly of Lima, died at 2:45 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012, in the Roselawn Manor Nursing Home, Spencerville, following a brief illness.

She was born Jan. 8, 1926, in Bluffton, a daughter of Charles Calvin and Lillie Carma Walters Burkholder. On June 24, 1942, she married Waldo Richard “Shorty” Hover, who died Aug. 1, 1999.

Surviving are four children: Larry L. (Diana) Hover of Pasadena, Texas; Gregory A. (Cheryl) Hover of Spencerville; Marlene K. (John) Prenzlin of Fostoria; and Carol D. (Philip) Endicott of Lima.

Also surviving are 13 grandchildren, 22 great-grandchildren and a sister, Jeanette Beach of Beaverdam.

She was preceded in death by a sister, Dorothy Victory.

Mrs. Hover was a homemaker and member of the Spencerville Church of the Nazarene.

Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m., Monday, Nov. 12, in the Chiles Laman Shawnee Chapel with Pastor Tim Benjamin officiating. Burial will follow in the Memorial Park Cemetery.

The family will receive friends from 4 to 8 p.m.  on Sunday and after noon on Monday at the funeral Home.

Memorials may be made to the family.

Thomas E. Bayliff Funeral Home, Spencerville, is in charge or arrangements