Helen wore many hats in the intervening years as a super volunteer for anything and everything that involved her children Cecelia (Ceil) born in 1944 and Michael born in 1947 and her husband's practice. She served as a girl scout leader, cub scout den mother, PTA president, Pink Ladies, a member of the Hunt County Medical Auxiliary. Helen was an active member of St. Williams Catholic Church.
Helen especially enjoyed cooking and entertaining friends and family well into her nineties. She particularly enjoyed traveling many national parks and much of the USA, plus New Zealand, Holland, Italy, France and Germany. She had a genuine zest for living.
After the death of Dr. Mehmert, Helen returned to Olney for a reunion and renewed a friendship with Jack Bauman, a childhood friend from the 1930's. Marriage eventually took place. Helen had played tennis since her teens and Jack was an avid golfer so they spent the next16 years traveling, entertaining, dancing, and enjoying life-long friends until Jack's untimely death in 2005. Many times Helen expressed the intense pleasure of having acquired an extended family through each new chapter in life. She became mother, grandmother and great-grandmother to all of them.
Helen is survived by her daughter Ceil Langford and husband Lanny, daughter-in-law Laura Mehmert (widow of Helen's son Mike who passed away one year ago this month), Jan Bauman York, six grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren.
A private graveside service was celebrated on October 28, 2024, at Memoryland Memorial Park with Deacon Lee Davis officiating. Funeral arrangements were under the direction of Coker-Mathews Funeral Home.
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