From The Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT) - Friday, May 2, 2003:
Helen Davis Bowring Ure, first woman chairman of the Utah State Board of Education and an active worker for health, education and women's causes, died in Salt Lake City Thursday, April 30, of causes incident to age. She was 90.
She was elected to the State Board of Education in 1964, and served three terms. She was also chairman of the Governor's Committee on Children and Youth and chairman of the 1970 White House Conference on Children and Youth for Utah.
In 1993 she was honored as a Distinguished Alumni of the University of Utah. She was president of the Women's State Legislative Council and president of the Young Women's Christian Association of Salt Lake. She was on the board of the League of Women Voters of Salt Lake and served on the advisory boards of the University of Utah College of Nursing and the Utah Department of Employment Security (now Workforce Services). For many years she served on the Salt Lake County Board of Health and was also president of the Utah Public Health Association.
During the 1950s and '60s, Mrs. Ure was active with the Parent-Teacher Association, serving as Granite Council PTA President, Utah PTA President, and as national vice president of the PTA, on whose executive board she sat from 1965-68.
She held many honors, including the Susa Young Gates Award and the Phi Delta Kappa national professional education fraternity Man of the Year in Education award.
Born Feb. 23, 1913, Helen was a daughter of Hannah Davis and William Daniel Bowring. The youngest of five children, Helen attended East High School and the University of Utah. On January 17, 1938, she married James W. Ure III in the Salt Lake Temple, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He died May 23, 1989.
Her survivors include three sons and a daughter: James W., Jonathan Daniel and Joseph McCune Ure, all of Salt Lake City; and Martha Helen Ure Niederhauser of Acton, Massachusetts. She is also survived by eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be Saturday at 2 p.m. at Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park Chapel, 3401 Highland Drive, where friends may call an hour-and-a-half prior. Burial will be in Wasatch Lawn.
Helen Davis Bowring Ure, first woman chairman of the Utah State Board of Education and an active worker for health, education and women's causes, died in Salt Lake City Thursday, April 30, of causes incident to age. She was 90.
She was elected to the State Board of Education in 1964, and served three terms. She was also chairman of the Governor's Committee on Children and Youth and chairman of the 1970 White House Conference on Children and Youth for Utah.
In 1993 she was honored as a Distinguished Alumni of the University of Utah. She was president of the Women's State Legislative Council and president of the Young Women's Christian Association of Salt Lake. She was on the board of the League of Women Voters of Salt Lake and served on the advisory boards of the University of Utah College of Nursing and the Utah Department of Employment Security (now Workforce Services). For many years she served on the Salt Lake County Board of Health and was also president of the Utah Public Health Association.
During the 1950s and '60s, Mrs. Ure was active with the Parent-Teacher Association, serving as Granite Council PTA President, Utah PTA President, and as national vice president of the PTA, on whose executive board she sat from 1965-68.
She held many honors, including the Susa Young Gates Award and the Phi Delta Kappa national professional education fraternity Man of the Year in Education award.
Born Feb. 23, 1913, Helen was a daughter of Hannah Davis and William Daniel Bowring. The youngest of five children, Helen attended East High School and the University of Utah. On January 17, 1938, she married James W. Ure III in the Salt Lake Temple, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He died May 23, 1989.
Her survivors include three sons and a daughter: James W., Jonathan Daniel and Joseph McCune Ure, all of Salt Lake City; and Martha Helen Ure Niederhauser of Acton, Massachusetts. She is also survived by eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be Saturday at 2 p.m. at Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park Chapel, 3401 Highland Drive, where friends may call an hour-and-a-half prior. Burial will be in Wasatch Lawn.
From The Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT) - Friday, May 2, 2003:
Helen Davis Bowring Ure, first woman chairman of the Utah State Board of Education and an active worker for health, education and women's causes, died in Salt Lake City Thursday, April 30, of causes incident to age. She was 90.
She was elected to the State Board of Education in 1964, and served three terms. She was also chairman of the Governor's Committee on Children and Youth and chairman of the 1970 White House Conference on Children and Youth for Utah.
In 1993 she was honored as a Distinguished Alumni of the University of Utah. She was president of the Women's State Legislative Council and president of the Young Women's Christian Association of Salt Lake. She was on the board of the League of Women Voters of Salt Lake and served on the advisory boards of the University of Utah College of Nursing and the Utah Department of Employment Security (now Workforce Services). For many years she served on the Salt Lake County Board of Health and was also president of the Utah Public Health Association.
During the 1950s and '60s, Mrs. Ure was active with the Parent-Teacher Association, serving as Granite Council PTA President, Utah PTA President, and as national vice president of the PTA, on whose executive board she sat from 1965-68.
She held many honors, including the Susa Young Gates Award and the Phi Delta Kappa national professional education fraternity Man of the Year in Education award.
Born Feb. 23, 1913, Helen was a daughter of Hannah Davis and William Daniel Bowring. The youngest of five children, Helen attended East High School and the University of Utah. On January 17, 1938, she married James W. Ure III in the Salt Lake Temple, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He died May 23, 1989.
Her survivors include three sons and a daughter: James W., Jonathan Daniel and Joseph McCune Ure, all of Salt Lake City; and Martha Helen Ure Niederhauser of Acton, Massachusetts. She is also survived by eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be Saturday at 2 p.m. at Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park Chapel, 3401 Highland Drive, where friends may call an hour-and-a-half prior. Burial will be in Wasatch Lawn.
Helen Davis Bowring Ure, first woman chairman of the Utah State Board of Education and an active worker for health, education and women's causes, died in Salt Lake City Thursday, April 30, of causes incident to age. She was 90.
She was elected to the State Board of Education in 1964, and served three terms. She was also chairman of the Governor's Committee on Children and Youth and chairman of the 1970 White House Conference on Children and Youth for Utah.
In 1993 she was honored as a Distinguished Alumni of the University of Utah. She was president of the Women's State Legislative Council and president of the Young Women's Christian Association of Salt Lake. She was on the board of the League of Women Voters of Salt Lake and served on the advisory boards of the University of Utah College of Nursing and the Utah Department of Employment Security (now Workforce Services). For many years she served on the Salt Lake County Board of Health and was also president of the Utah Public Health Association.
During the 1950s and '60s, Mrs. Ure was active with the Parent-Teacher Association, serving as Granite Council PTA President, Utah PTA President, and as national vice president of the PTA, on whose executive board she sat from 1965-68.
She held many honors, including the Susa Young Gates Award and the Phi Delta Kappa national professional education fraternity Man of the Year in Education award.
Born Feb. 23, 1913, Helen was a daughter of Hannah Davis and William Daniel Bowring. The youngest of five children, Helen attended East High School and the University of Utah. On January 17, 1938, she married James W. Ure III in the Salt Lake Temple, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He died May 23, 1989.
Her survivors include three sons and a daughter: James W., Jonathan Daniel and Joseph McCune Ure, all of Salt Lake City; and Martha Helen Ure Niederhauser of Acton, Massachusetts. She is also survived by eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be Saturday at 2 p.m. at Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park Chapel, 3401 Highland Drive, where friends may call an hour-and-a-half prior. Burial will be in Wasatch Lawn.
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