Helen E. Clement's Obituary
Memoir of Helen Elizabeth Clement
Born Helen Elizabeth Dausch on March 31, 1924, Helen grew up on Butler St in Adrian with her brother Robert. She spent a great deal of time with her Grandma Anderson and Uncle Bill Westfall at his grocery store. An avid athlete, Helen dominated as a fastpitch softball pitcher from a young girl into her adult years. She also excelled at roller skating, bowling, horseback riding and rode many a mile on her 1937 Indian Scout. On June 4, 1942 she married Theodore Roosevelt Clement, whom she met playing tennis (and probably beat!) Helen served in the Navy WAVS, enlisting after D Day as she wanted to serve her country, and they wouldn’t take Ted as he was color blind. After returning home she joined her husband in the family business, and together they ran Clement’s Welding on Treat Hwy for ~35 years while raising 5 children. Helen also excelled as a welder and Ted had a paint room built when Helen decided she wanted to try her hand at auto body and painting. She made the cover of the 1953 DeVilbiss catalog. After Ted’s passing in 1978, Helen worked for a short time at Vo Tech and taught a summer welding class there. She studied very hard and earned her GED Certificate there in 1979. It was around this time she decided it was time to start anew, and moved to Tucson Arizona. There she was employed by Burr-Brown, a corporation that designed and manufactured integrated circuits. As usual, she excelled there
and was promoted to running the parylene room where she was the sole workforce. After retirement Helen spent many years out and about with her dear friend Pat Clement. In her later years Helen was lovingly cared for by her son John. On January 25, 2017 Helen left this earth to start a new adventure in Heaven. I don’t know what God has lined up for her there, but I know she will excel at it. Left here on earth to try to fill her shoes are her children John (Barbara), Mary (Jerry) Rye, Allan (Margie), Bill (Karen), and Norma; fourteen grandkids, thirty-six great grandkids, fourteen great-greatgrandkids and two more on the way. Hooyah Helen, Hooyah
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