Breckinridge County KyArchives Obituaries.....Fentress, Helen Myers August 3, 2009
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Trent-Dowell Funeral Home
Helen Myers Fentress, 93, a retired Military Intelligence Analyst who worked 
for the U.S. Army in Japan, died on August 3, 2009. Mrs. Fentress a resident 
of Falls Church, VA., was born on October 22, 1915 in Toronto, Ohio. During 
WWII she served as a Hospital Social Worker with the American Red Cross. In 
1946 she accepted a civil service appointment with General MacArthur’s Tokyo 
Headquarters in the Civil Information and Education Division. In 1952 she 
served with the United Nations command psychological warfare effort to educate 
and rehabilitate North Korean prisoners of war, then later served as Military 
Intelligence Analyst with J-2, Far East Command: 500th Military Intelligence 
Group until her retirement in 1959. She received numerous awards and citations 
during her Federal service career. She also taught English Literature and 
English conversation at Tokyo University, Tokyo Japan. Mrs. Fentress also 
enjoyed traveling and visited counties in the Far East, Western and Eastern 
Europe as well as the Middle East. 

Mrs. Fentress was a charter member of the Toronto High School National Honor 
Society. 

She earned a Bachelor’s degree in Education from Adrian College, in Adrian MI, 
was a member of the Delta Delta Delta National Sorority, Order of the Eastern 
Star, and blood line member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She 
did post graduate work at Methodist College in Fayetteville, N.C. and Monmouth 
College, in N.J.

She was an active supporter in the community, including the scouting program, 
her church, Special Education for children; Officer’s Wives Club, and was an 
active volunteer and served on numerous committees’. She was married for 42 
years, and is survived by her two sons, Gary Fentress and his wife Derrian of 
Roswell, GA., Joseph Fentress and his wife Lyndia of Charlotte, NC, four 
grandchildren and three great grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held on Saturday, August 8, 2009 at 11AM CDT at Trent-
Dowell Funeral Home with Rev. Greg Shannon officiating. Visitation will begin 
at 8:30AM CDT Saturday.

Mrs. Fentress will be buried along side her beloved husband Joseph E. Fentress 
at St. Anthony Cemetery in Axtel,KY.  In lieu of flower the family kindly 
requests donations to the American Cancer Society. 


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