McMinnville resident and Fayetteville native Helen Cambron Elkins, 97, was born Oct. 15, 1914 and died Dec. 23 at Alive Hospice at St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville following a brief illness. Mrs. Elkins graduated from Tennessee College for Women in Murfreesboro in 1938 and did graduate work at Peabody College. She began teaching at City Grammar in McMinnville in 1936 and retired from the Warren County School System in 1980.