Spokane Daily Chronicle – January 11, 1958


Annabell Helm

      OROFINO, Idaho, Jan. 11 – Mrs. Annabell Helm, 56, a resident of the Orofino area all her life, died Wednesday at a Lewiston hospital. Death was attributed to a heart ailment.

      Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sylvenous Carr, came from West Virginia in 1900 and homesteaded on the Lowers Fords Creek district. She was born near Fraser in 1901.

      She was a member of the Orofino Methodist church, Bluebell Rebekah lodge of Orofino, and the Nina Mae Past Noble Grand club, and a charter member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars auxiliary.

      Survivors are her husband, George, and a son Guy S. Helm, both of Orofino; a daughter, Mrs. Charles Wilfong, Ephrata, Wash.; two sister, Mrs. Flaura Johnson, Ottawa, Idaho, and Mrs. Mrtle Anderson, Orofino; two brothers, Ira Carr, Fraser, and Lloyd Carr, Orofino, and one grandchild.

      Funeral Services were to be held at Methodist church at 2 this afternoon with the Rev. Marshall Campbell officiating. Burial was planned in the Riverside cemetery, with Gilbert’s funeral home in charge of arrangements.



Transcribed by Jo Frederiksen, 2014


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