Helen Marie (Hodgin) Fawcett (1917-2005)

HODGIN, HENDERSON, FAWCETT, TIPPS, COPE, LEVIN, DISHMAN

Posted By: jane austin (email)
Date: 12/23/2021 at 00:16:12

Helen M. Fawcett, 87, died Tuesday April 12, 2005 at Mercy Hospital in Iowa City.
Funeral services will be held 11 A.M. Saturday April 16, 2005 at the Hickory Grove Meeting House at Scattergood Friends School, rural West Branch. Friends may call Friday from 5 to 7 P.M. at the Henderson-Barker Funeral Home 201 Pedersen Street, West Branch. Burial will be in the Hickory Grove Cemetery, rural West Branch. A memorial fund has been established.

Helen was born December 29, 1917 in Paulina, Iowa the daughter of Henry and Rachel Henderson Hodgin. She was a graduate of Grinnell College where she received her BA in History. She had worked at the Chicago Home for Girls for a short time before teaching high school History in Hutchinson, Minnesota.

On August 12, 1944 she was united in marriage to Alfred Fawcett in Paulina. 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 4H leader. She enjoyed raising a big garden, reading, bird watching and sports. Helen was a responsible world citizen.

Survivors include her four children: Nancy Fawcett of Scattergood Friends School, West Branch, Richard (Linda) Fawcett of Huxley, Iowa, James (Kathleen) Fawcett of Solon and Rebecca Tipps of Beaver Creek, Ohio. Six grandchildren: Heidi Cope, April Levin, Jennifer Dishman, Lindsay Fawcett, Kathy Tipps and Eric Tipps. One great grandson Henry Levin. A brother Wilson (Caroline) Hodgin of Alexandria, Virginia. She was preceded in death by her parents, and husband Alfred in 1997.

Published by the Iowa City Press-Citizen on Apr. 14, 2005.

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