Helen May (Luce) Hobson, daughter of George Walker Luce and Lois Etta Risch, passed away at the age of 85 in Beaverton, Ore., on April 24, 2010.
She was born Oct. 20, 1924, in Karns City, and she attended Butler Senior High School until 1942 when she married Robert Bruce Mahan.
Helen briefly was a bookkeeper in Butler until her adventurous spirit called her to enlist in the U.S. Navy on March 7, 1945.
Her life as a WAVE began at the Naval Training School in the Bronx, N.Y., where she trained for eight weeks to be a telegrapher. Helen was then stationed in the Washington, D.C., naval barracks where she made many friends and had some of the happiest memories of her life. She was honorably discharged in September 1947 and earned the World War II Victory Medal.
Following her release from the Navy, she entered domestic life with her new husband, Robert Lloyd Hobson, with whom she had four children, Kathy H. Bleyle, Robert Lyle Hobson, Pamela H. Ketcham, and Randolph Lawrence Hobson.
The couple lived in Tulsa, Okla., from 1951 to 1955 while her husband was a police officer in the city's detective division. Upon Robert's resignation in 1955 to begin his new career as an airline pilot, the family moved to Denver, Colo. This was the beginning of frequent moves to accommodate her husband's career with Mohawk, Allegheny and US Airways, finally landing her back home in Pennsylvania a decade or so later.
While living in Rector, Westmoreland County, Helen was president of the garden club and gracefully transitioned from being a mother to being a grandmother.
Upon her husband's retirement, they moved to Hammondsport, N.Y. For more than 20 years they lived in their cottage in the woods overlooking Keuka Lake.
Her grandchildren remember this home among all the others with the most clarity and fondest of memories. Visions remain of their Gramma working in her garden of hollyhocks and pansies.
She was at peace with the natural beauty surrounding her cottage in the woods, feeding the birds and other creatures at the break of dawn each morning.
Upon her husband's death in 2004, she made her final move to Beaverton to live with her eldest daughter. In her final years, she enjoyed the comfort and company of her children, five granddaughters, and four great-grandchildren.
HOBSON - Funeral arrangements for Helen Hobson who died Saturday, April 24, 2010, were handled by Springer and Son Funeral Home in Beaverton.
Published in The Butler Eagle, July 3 & 4, 2010.
Butler County, Pennsylvania, USA
She was born Oct. 20, 1924, in Karns City, and she attended Butler Senior High School until 1942 when she married Robert Bruce Mahan.
Helen briefly was a bookkeeper in Butler until her adventurous spirit called her to enlist in the U.S. Navy on March 7, 1945.
Her life as a WAVE began at the Naval Training School in the Bronx, N.Y., where she trained for eight weeks to be a telegrapher. Helen was then stationed in the Washington, D.C., naval barracks where she made many friends and had some of the happiest memories of her life. She was honorably discharged in September 1947 and earned the World War II Victory Medal.
Following her release from the Navy, she entered domestic life with her new husband, Robert Lloyd Hobson, with whom she had four children, Kathy H. Bleyle, Robert Lyle Hobson, Pamela H. Ketcham, and Randolph Lawrence Hobson.
The couple lived in Tulsa, Okla., from 1951 to 1955 while her husband was a police officer in the city's detective division. Upon Robert's resignation in 1955 to begin his new career as an airline pilot, the family moved to Denver, Colo. This was the beginning of frequent moves to accommodate her husband's career with Mohawk, Allegheny and US Airways, finally landing her back home in Pennsylvania a decade or so later.
While living in Rector, Westmoreland County, Helen was president of the garden club and gracefully transitioned from being a mother to being a grandmother.
Upon her husband's retirement, they moved to Hammondsport, N.Y. For more than 20 years they lived in their cottage in the woods overlooking Keuka Lake.
Her grandchildren remember this home among all the others with the most clarity and fondest of memories. Visions remain of their Gramma working in her garden of hollyhocks and pansies.
She was at peace with the natural beauty surrounding her cottage in the woods, feeding the birds and other creatures at the break of dawn each morning.
Upon her husband's death in 2004, she made her final move to Beaverton to live with her eldest daughter. In her final years, she enjoyed the comfort and company of her children, five granddaughters, and four great-grandchildren.
HOBSON - Funeral arrangements for Helen Hobson who died Saturday, April 24, 2010, were handled by Springer and Son Funeral Home in Beaverton.
Published in The Butler Eagle, July 3 & 4, 2010.
Butler County, Pennsylvania, USA
Helen May (Luce) Hobson, daughter of George Walker Luce and Lois Etta Risch, passed away at the age of 85 in Beaverton, Ore., on April 24, 2010.
She was born Oct. 20, 1924, in Karns City, and she attended Butler Senior High School until 1942 when she married Robert Bruce Mahan.
Helen briefly was a bookkeeper in Butler until her adventurous spirit called her to enlist in the U.S. Navy on March 7, 1945.
Her life as a WAVE began at the Naval Training School in the Bronx, N.Y., where she trained for eight weeks to be a telegrapher. Helen was then stationed in the Washington, D.C., naval barracks where she made many friends and had some of the happiest memories of her life. She was honorably discharged in September 1947 and earned the World War II Victory Medal.
Following her release from the Navy, she entered domestic life with her new husband, Robert Lloyd Hobson, with whom she had four children, Kathy H. Bleyle, Robert Lyle Hobson, Pamela H. Ketcham, and Randolph Lawrence Hobson.
The couple lived in Tulsa, Okla., from 1951 to 1955 while her husband was a police officer in the city's detective division. Upon Robert's resignation in 1955 to begin his new career as an airline pilot, the family moved to Denver, Colo. This was the beginning of frequent moves to accommodate her husband's career with Mohawk, Allegheny and US Airways, finally landing her back home in Pennsylvania a decade or so later.
While living in Rector, Westmoreland County, Helen was president of the garden club and gracefully transitioned from being a mother to being a grandmother.
Upon her husband's retirement, they moved to Hammondsport, N.Y. For more than 20 years they lived in their cottage in the woods overlooking Keuka Lake.
Her grandchildren remember this home among all the others with the most clarity and fondest of memories. Visions remain of their Gramma working in her garden of hollyhocks and pansies.
She was at peace with the natural beauty surrounding her cottage in the woods, feeding the birds and other creatures at the break of dawn each morning.
Upon her husband's death in 2004, she made her final move to Beaverton to live with her eldest daughter. In her final years, she enjoyed the comfort and company of her children, five granddaughters, and four great-grandchildren.
HOBSON - Funeral arrangements for Helen Hobson who died Saturday, April 24, 2010, were handled by Springer and Son Funeral Home in Beaverton.
Published in The Butler Eagle, July 3 & 4, 2010.
Butler County, Pennsylvania, USA
She was born Oct. 20, 1924, in Karns City, and she attended Butler Senior High School until 1942 when she married Robert Bruce Mahan.
Helen briefly was a bookkeeper in Butler until her adventurous spirit called her to enlist in the U.S. Navy on March 7, 1945.
Her life as a WAVE began at the Naval Training School in the Bronx, N.Y., where she trained for eight weeks to be a telegrapher. Helen was then stationed in the Washington, D.C., naval barracks where she made many friends and had some of the happiest memories of her life. She was honorably discharged in September 1947 and earned the World War II Victory Medal.
Following her release from the Navy, she entered domestic life with her new husband, Robert Lloyd Hobson, with whom she had four children, Kathy H. Bleyle, Robert Lyle Hobson, Pamela H. Ketcham, and Randolph Lawrence Hobson.
The couple lived in Tulsa, Okla., from 1951 to 1955 while her husband was a police officer in the city's detective division. Upon Robert's resignation in 1955 to begin his new career as an airline pilot, the family moved to Denver, Colo. This was the beginning of frequent moves to accommodate her husband's career with Mohawk, Allegheny and US Airways, finally landing her back home in Pennsylvania a decade or so later.
While living in Rector, Westmoreland County, Helen was president of the garden club and gracefully transitioned from being a mother to being a grandmother.
Upon her husband's retirement, they moved to Hammondsport, N.Y. For more than 20 years they lived in their cottage in the woods overlooking Keuka Lake.
Her grandchildren remember this home among all the others with the most clarity and fondest of memories. Visions remain of their Gramma working in her garden of hollyhocks and pansies.
She was at peace with the natural beauty surrounding her cottage in the woods, feeding the birds and other creatures at the break of dawn each morning.
Upon her husband's death in 2004, she made her final move to Beaverton to live with her eldest daughter. In her final years, she enjoyed the comfort and company of her children, five granddaughters, and four great-grandchildren.
HOBSON - Funeral arrangements for Helen Hobson who died Saturday, April 24, 2010, were handled by Springer and Son Funeral Home in Beaverton.
Published in The Butler Eagle, July 3 & 4, 2010.
Butler County, Pennsylvania, USA
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