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Subject: [UTUTAH] Obit for Helen Ferguson McEuen
Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 01:10:33 -0000
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Author: c8meyring
Surnames: Ferguson, Creer, McEuen
Classification: obituary
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Helen Ferguson McEuen passed away June 15, 2007, at St. John's Regional Medical Center, in Oxnard.
Helen was born in Spanish Fork, Utah, Feb. 27, 1922. She was the fourth of five children of Eli Kelsey and Mary Helen Creer Ferguson. Her parents and three brothers, Reed, Gordon and Kay, preceded her in death.
She is survived by her sister, Jean Ferguson of Davis, Calif. Helen's family of Fergusons and Creers, were Mormon pioneers, coming into Salt Lake Valley with Brigham Young to settle the region.
Helen was the loving and devoted wife of Andy C. McEuen for 65 years and the dear mother of two children, Linda Kay McEuen and Reed Scott McEuen. Linda preceded her in death in 2001. Her son, Scott and wife Ann, live in Charlottesville, Utah. She has 13 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.
Helen was born and raised in Spanish Fork, Utah. She attended grade school, junior high school and high school there. When she was 16 she and her family moved to Safford in the Gila Valley in Arizona. There is where she met her future husband, Andy McEuen, who was a senior and Helen was a junior at Safford High. Upon graduation Helen attended Gila Junior College. The Ferguson family then moved to El Paso, Texas, then to Los Angeles. Andy was working for Paramount Pictures then. Their courtship continued and they were married in the Wee Kirk of Heather in Glendale, Calif. Then, when the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Temple of Los Angeles, was completed they were sealed there.
Shortly after marriage, Andy was called into military service and was in a tank battalion for four years, was involved in invasion of France, Belgium, and Germany from 1942 to 1946. During World War II, Helen worked in defense corporations.
In 1949, when Andy completed degrees at University of Southern California, Andy and Helen and 2-year-old daughter moved to Oxnard. Andy started teaching at Oxnard High School. Her son Scott was born a year later.
During the next several years Helen was a devoted mother and when the kids matured and went to college, she worked as a school librarian in the Hueneme School District. All her life she has been a devoted member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In her maturing and married life, she was president of the Young Women's Organization of the Santa Barbara Stake and Ventura Stake, president of the Relief Society of the Oxnard Second Ward, librarian of the Gary Drive Building, taught Gospel Doctrine class for seven years, was a missionary in Camarillo Stake for two years ...served as an ordinance worker in the Los Angeles Temple for two years, and served as a diligent visiting teacher since 1951.
Everyone who knew Helen McEuen have expressed their sincere feelings and beliefs of this fine woman. She was always at peace with herself. She always looked for the good in people. She was the best neighbor ever. She was truly a friend in need. Here was a person who didn't need to be at the top of the totem pole ... she felt that a record of service was far more important than a listing of the offices one held.
A funeral service in celebration of Helen's life will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, June 23, at The Church of Latter-day Saints, 1190 Gary Drive, Oxnard. Interment will be at Spanish Fort, Utah.
Arrangements under the direction of Conrad-Carroll Mortuary, 401 W. Channel Island Blvd., Oxnard, phone 805-487-4911.
Published in the Ventura County Star from 6/20/2007 - 6/23/2007.
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