Helen M. Fawcett
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Helen M. Fawcett
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Posted: 22 Jun 2009 12:30PM GMT |
Classification: Obituary
WEST BRANCH, Iowa -- Helen M. Fawcett, 87, West Branch, died Tuesday, April 12, 2005, at Mercy Hospital, Iowa City.
Burial will be at Hickory Grove Cemetery, rural West Branch.
Mrs. Fawcett was born Dec. 29, 1917, in Paulina, the daughter of Henry and Rachel Henderson Hodgin. She married Alfred Fawcett Aug. 12, 1944, in Paulina. He preceded her in death in 1997.
She was a graduate of Grinnell College where she received a bachelor of arts degree in history.
She had worked at the Chicago Home for Girls for a short time before teaching high school history in Hutchinson, Minn.
The couple farmed in the West Branch area all their adult lives.
She was a member of the American Association of University Women, Centerdale Club, Questers and an Investment Club. She was active in the Quaker meeting in West Branch and was on the Scattergood School Committee for many years, a West Branch Library Board member and a former 4-H leader. She enjoyed raising a big garden, reading, bird watching and sports. She was a responsible world citizen.
Survivors include four children, Nancy Fawcett of Scattergood Friends School, West Branch, Richard Fawcett and wife Linda of Huxley, James Fawcett and wife Kathleen of Solon and Rebecca Tipps of Beaver Creek, Ohio; six grandchildren, Heidi Cope, April Levin, Jennifer Dishman, Lindsay Fawcett, Kathy Tipps and Eric Tipps; a great-grandson, Henry Levin; a brother, Wilson Hodgin and wife Caroline of Alexandria, Va.
She was preceded in death by her parents and her husband.
Burial will be at Hickory Grove Cemetery, rural West Branch.
Mrs. Fawcett was born Dec. 29, 1917, in Paulina, the daughter of Henry and Rachel Henderson Hodgin. She married Alfred Fawcett Aug. 12, 1944, in Paulina. He preceded her in death in 1997.
She was a graduate of Grinnell College where she received a bachelor of arts degree in history.
She had worked at the Chicago Home for Girls for a short time before teaching high school history in Hutchinson, Minn.
The couple farmed in the West Branch area all their adult lives.
She was a member of the American Association of University Women, Centerdale Club, Questers and an Investment Club. She was active in the Quaker meeting in West Branch and was on the Scattergood School Committee for many years, a West Branch Library Board member and a former 4-H leader. She enjoyed raising a big garden, reading, bird watching and sports. She was a responsible world citizen.
Survivors include four children, Nancy Fawcett of Scattergood Friends School, West Branch, Richard Fawcett and wife Linda of Huxley, James Fawcett and wife Kathleen of Solon and Rebecca Tipps of Beaver Creek, Ohio; six grandchildren, Heidi Cope, April Levin, Jennifer Dishman, Lindsay Fawcett, Kathy Tipps and Eric Tipps; a great-grandson, Henry Levin; a brother, Wilson Hodgin and wife Caroline of Alexandria, Va.
She was preceded in death by her parents and her husband.