This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Mayo Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2RB.2ACE/8450 Message Board Post: FT. MYERS, Fla. Helen N. Mayo, age 100, died March 1, 2006. She was the daughter of the late George E. Mayo and Jane Simpson Arnold Mayo of Potsdam, N.Y. She was born in Maine. She grew up in Mich. and returned to where she received a B.A. and M.A. degrees in modern language from the University of Maine in Orono. In addition, she studied at the National University of Mexico and also at the Sorbonne in Paris as well as spending vacations among French and Spanish speaking friends toward perfection in the languages and absorbing this culture. She was an innovator and exponent of the spoken language. During her career, she taught in the high schools of Brasher, Stockholm and Hudson Falls, N.Y. During that time, she also worked as regents examiner and regents consultant in both languages in the state education department in Albany, N.Y. After returning from State University of New York in Albany, first as professor of French, Spanish and later as international student advisor, sh! e spent a year with the department of education in Lima, Peru, assisting with their teacher-training program. She contributed to various professional magazines. The oldest of six, she is survived by sisters, Dorothy M. Morris of Chapel Hill, N.C., Alice M. Hankey, Haverford, Pa. and Jane M. Hughes of Rockford, Ill. and several nieces and nephews. A brother, George E. Mayo, died in 1985 and a sister, Connie M. Clawson, died in 1992. Burial will be in St. Vincent dePaul Church in Fort Myers, Fla. Published in the Albany Times Union on 3/5/2006. http://www.legacy.com/TimesUnion-Albany/Obituaries.asp?Page=Lifestory&PersonId=16920782