Helen Stanton Obituary (2021) – Tucson, AZ

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STANTON, Helen Maxine

100, died on August 22, 2021, four days before her 101st birthday, in Kingston, TN.

The mother of four, grandmother of eight, and the widow of Air Force veteran William Albert Stanton, spent much of her life in Tucson, AZ, where she worked for the American Red Cross and Holmes Tuttle Ford. She led a family of four children and a husband of 56 years of age in Tucson, taking care of the family dogs, desert tortoises, and box turtles that she fed from a can of dog food every night.

Born in Braddyville, Iowa on August 26, 1920, she worked for German soldiers at a POW camp in Iowa during World War II and later moved to Cheyenne, WY. There she met her husband and they married on January 31, 1948. They lived in England, Germany and Spain, as dictated by her husband’s military career.

In 1966 the family moved to Tucson, where her husband retired from the Air Force and she continued to work, despite the fact that she was always late for any job she had – mainly because of the difficulties of their children: daughters Jan Stanton Thigpen and Billie Stanton and sons, Sam and Joe.

She loved music and animals, and for her visits she lived on beaches, where she walked for miles along the surf. “She never found a shell that she didn’t keep,” recalls her daughter Jan. She lived in Tennessee with the family of her second son, Joe, for the last ten years.

She is buried next to her husband, who died in 2004, in East Lawn Palms Cemetery.

Published by Arizona Daily Star on August 25, 2021.

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