Laconia----Helen H. Harrington, 99, formerly of White Oaks Road, died at the Mt. Ridge Health Care Center, Franklin on Friday, June 15, 2012. She was the widow of Malcolm W. Harrington who died in 2003. She was born Helen Lilian Holman on January 21, 1913, in Rensselaer, Indiana, to Ray and Mary (Gilmore) Holman.
Helen graduated from Butler, Indiana, High School class of 1931 and married Malcolm W. Harrington on December 15, 1933, whom she met while he was attending Tristate College in Angola, Indiana.
While living on Province Road in Belmont, she and Malcolm were charter members of the Province Road Community Club and the Province Road Grange at the top of Marsh Hill next to the Province Road Meeting House. With Malcolm, she engaged in farming in Belmont, Gilford and finally on White Oaks Road in Laconia. They had three sons, Robert, Ray and David.
During her farming years, she was active in the Belknap County Farm Bureau, the Gilford Community Church while in Gilford, the Congregational Church of Laconia and the Opechee Garden Club. While a member of the Diaconate of the Congregational Church, she worked with Dr. Norman McLetchie to establish the Dorcas Fund, a benevolence fund to help those in need within the church and the community.
After retiring from farming, she became very interested in tracing the Holman family history back to its establishment in Yadkin County, North Carolina, prior to the Revolutionary War. This was Boone country, and she was amused to think that her ancestors were neighbors of “Squire Boone”. Although she was eligible to be a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, it was not something that ever interested her.
She was predeceased by her husband, Malcolm, and her two brothers and two sisters. She is survived by her sons, Robert, Ray and David; five grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.
There will be no calling hours.
A Memorial Service will be held on Saturday, September 15, 2012 at 2:00PM at the Laconia Congregational Church, 69 Pleasant Street, Laconia, N.H.
Burial will be in Union Cemetery.
For those who wish, the family suggests that memorial donations be made to The Dorcas Fund, Laconia Congregational Church, 18 Veterans Square, Laconia, NH 03246.
Wilkinson-Beane-Simoneau-Paquette Funeral Home & Cremation Services, 164 Pleasant Street, Laconia, N.H. is assisting the family with the arrangements.