missing helen

I may be making it up, but I wouldn't be the only person who has wondered if Helen willed her life to last just long enough to see her daughter Michana ('mike') married. Within a week after the wedding she'd passed away.

 

I'll miss her. KD and I used to run into Mike and Helen at the winter farmer's market with great frequency. Helen would say 'tell me something new and interesting'; KD would talk about the latest happenings around town (her finger on the pulse due to her job) while I'd try hard to think of something unusual to pique her curiosity. Sometimes I'd make up "facts" just to see if I could trip her up ... never could, but we sure had a good laugh over my efforts. She liked KD especially, had a soft spot for the non-hets among us (finally, someone we didn't have to fight to convince we weren't freakish monsters!) and there wasn't a time she wasn't dressed just so.

 

At her memorial service Teddy (pictured above behind Helen) told me that when she and her brother & sisters were children Helen would say that the only appropriate place to chew gum was "in the privacy of the boudoir".

 

What a lady.

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