San Joaquin County CA Obituary Project Obituaries.....Welch, Helen Taylor March 29, 2005 ********************************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/obits/obitsca/obitsca.htm ********************************************************** File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Vickie Stone VctrStV4U@aol.com June 25, 2005, 3:38 am Lodi News-Sentinel June 24, 2005 Helen Taylor Welch Helen Taylor Welch of Irvine, California, passed away peacefully on March 29, 2005 after a long illness. Born May 29, 1916 and raised in Lodi surrounded by many Beckman cousins, she was the daughter of the late Walter E. Taylor and Clara Beckman Taylor of Lodi, and granddaughter of the late Henry F. Beckman and Phillipene Klink, also of Lodi. She attended Lodi High School, then San Mateo High School and was graduated from Beverly Hills High School. She attended Stanford University, where she joined the Alpha Phi sorority and met her husband, Robert G. (Bob) Welch. She was graduated in 1938 with a bachelor's degree in social sciences, after which she worked in the analytic department at Wells Fargo Bank in San Francisco. Married in March 1940, she and Bob lived in San Francisco during the war years and she volunteered in the Emergency Relief Station set up in the Grace Cathedral until 1945 when they moved across the bay to Orinda. In 1950 they moved to downtown Chicago. During this time, Bob worked and traveled for Kaiser Aluminum, while Helen raised their children, serving as a Brownie leader, making elaborate handmade Halloween costumes and wonderful homemade birthday party favors, while helpig Bob entertain business colleagues. In 1954, when Bob became president of the Steel Service Center Institute, they moved to Cleveland and lived in Shaker Heights, Ohio. Helen became Executive Assistant at the Institute and they traveled on steel business to most parts of the world, with Helen arranging facilities and events for business and government leaders. Helen was a woman of style and flair, of caring and graciousness, who friends throughout the world noted brought 'finesse, insight and intelligence suffused with gentle courtesy and subtle charm to all she did. Her ability to make all around her feel appreciated and special created such deep friendships that on her death scores of people were still exchanging Christman cards with her, sharing fond memories of their times together. She and her husband were avid art collectors and golfers, interested in national politics, enjoyed jazz and loved dancing together. Helen was someone who even when she began traveling thousands of international miles a year, still provided her family with gourmet meals, a moral compass and open arms when children and grandchildren came for extended summer stays and holiday celebrations. In 1982, Helen and Bob bought a winter home in La Quinta, California, where they resided full time from 1988. Bob passes away in 1992 and in 1995 Helen moved to Regents Point in Irvine, California. Helen is survived by many family members who remember her as living life with adaptability, courage, stamina and grace. They include daughters Wendy Ellertson of Boston, Sherry Loofbourrow of Laguna Beach, California and Gina Lopez Rosenberg of San Francisco, who originally joined the family as a foreign exchange student from Paname; three sons-in-law Jon Ellertson, Jom Loofbourrow and Mark Rosenburg; grandchildren Debi, Pat, Kelly, Kira, Erika, Inga, Eben, Clara, Gabriel and Rachel; and great-grandchildren Briana, Isaandra, Trish, Alexandra, Ethan, Taylor, Alan, Brendan, Isadora, Colin, Julia and Emma. Helen's son, Peter Taylor Welch, died in 1990. the family hild a celebration of Helen's life in mid April. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ca/sanjoaquin/obits/welch8156gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/caobfiles/ File size: 4.0 Kb