- Found her obit at The Muir and Galipeau Family tree at Ancestry owned by David L. Muir:
Obituary in local newspaper dated 2 Feb., 1998:
Helen E. Heath
Helen Elizabeth Heath, 87, of Fort Collins, died Saturday, Jan 31 1998 at home. A funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at First Pressbyterian Church. The Rev. Rich McDermott will officiate. A private family interment will be at Grandview Cemetery.
Helen Franklin was born Feb. 3, 1910, in Ester Creek, Alaska, to Calvin W. Franklin and Hilma Gustafson Franklin. She attended Fairbanks High School. She earned a degree in business from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, in 1930. She married Robert C. Heath in 1933. She was a homemaker who also co-owned and operated a gold mine on Pearl Creek with her husband until 1942. She then co-owned and operated a chrome mine at Red Mountain, Alaska, that contributed to the World War II effort. She was a proofreader for the Coloradoan in the early 1950s. She then worked for the Colorado State University Home Extension Service until 1975.
She enjoyed oil painting, gardening and playing the piano. She was a volunteer cook at a local Hospitality Kitchen and helped found the Cache La Poudre chapter of Questers. She was known for her generosity and sense of humor. She had lived in Fort Collins since 1943.
Survivors include one son Robert C. Heath of Fort Collins, two daughters, Helen Gael Pedersen of Portland, Ore., and Lynn Renee Greenwald of Fort Collins, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, parents and one brother, Calvin Franklin.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Helen Heath Scholarship, that will be established at the University of Alaska, in care of Reager Funeral Home.
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