This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Spawn, Andrews, Valcourt, Grosch, Berry, Clark Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Wm.2ADEB/3043 Message Board Post: Obit of Helen Ruth Andrews Spawn, Brookings Oregon Helen Andrews Spawn, 84, died in Brookings on October 28, 2004 of natural causes. Helen Andrews Spawn was born Helen Ruth Andrews in Bath, Maine September 30, 1920 the first child of Albert H. Andrews and Ruth Valcourt. At an early age the family moved to West Springfield, Massachusetts. At the age of 12 she became a Girl Scout. She was in the Springfield Girl Scout Drum and Bugle Corps. During several summers she was the Camp Bugler. She also became a member of the Girl Sea Scouts. Helen attended schools in West Springfield, graduating from High School in 1938. She attended Westfield State College for two years. She changed her major to Nurses Training, then entered the Nurses Training School at Springfield General Hospital where she met a patient named Morris Spawn. The courtship started about six months after his discharge from the hospital. The rules of the nursing school forbade the marriage of students while in training. Morris enlisted in the U. S. Navy and the courtship continued via mail. In January 1944 Morris learned he was returning to the USA and also that Helen would be completing nurses training in February. Therefore wedding plans were completed. Morris returned to the states February 19, Helen finished her training February 21 and the wedding was the following Saturday, February 26 1944. Helen started her nursing career following the honeymoon. She worked as a Registered Nurse in many hospitals while her husband was on Naval Duty. Helen went back to college in the 1960’s and received her BA in Public Health Nursing and became a school Nurse in Garden Grove schools in California for 19 years. They lived in Lakewood for more than 50 years before moving to Harbor. Helen is survived by her husband Morris Spawn, five children, daughters Kat and husband Rocky Grosch, Peggy and husband Willard Berry, both of Brookings, sons Andy and wife Claudia of McMinnville, OR. Dave Spawn and wife C.C. and Ted Spawn and wife Kathie of Tigard OR, sister, Esther and husband Earl Clark of Raton, NM and many nieces, 10 Grand children, 22 Great grand children and 2 Great-Great grand children who reside from coast to coast, twelve live in the Brookings area, nine in northern Oregon, four in Washington, and five in Colorado, three in Louisiana and two in Maine. Helen has been a member of the Order of the Eastern Star for more than 63 years, a member of the Order of the Amaranth, Daughters of the Nile, Order of the White Shrine of Jerusalem. She has been the presiding officer of many of the organizations. Helen will be missed by many more than we will ever know. The family requests that a donation be made to your favorite charity in her Memory in lieu of flowers Memorial Services will be held at Sydney Croft Masonic Temple on Friday November 12, 2004 at 2 PM Helen is my Grand Mother Donald G. Locke Jr.