Lebanon County PA Archives Obituaries.....Daniels, Helen J. October 16, 2008
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  Published in the Lebanon Daily News on 10/19/2008 
  Daniels, Helen J.   
   
  Helen J. (nee Stein) Daniels, of West Chester and Bethel died Thursday, October 
  16, 2008, peacefully at home. She was born in Bethel, Pennsylvania, on March 
  24, 1926, to her loving parents, Ida and William Stein. She graduated from 
  Bethel High School, where she loved to learn, and passed on her knowledge to 
  her friends, family, beloved co-workers, and daughter, Karen L. Stein. A track 
  and field athlete, Helen loved to play basketball, and she her love of sports 
  continued throughout her life. She met her future husband, George, at 
  Indiantown Gap during the Korean War, and they lived happily together until he 
  went to be with his departed family June 2003. They shared dancing, tennis, 
  bowling at the Goodwill Fire Company in Myerstown, and at Cedar Lanes in 
  Lebanon, travel, and chasing his model airplanes. She and her husband worked as 
  office manager and in shipping at Publix Shirt Co. in Myerstown, until the 
  company closed. Helen started another career for 20 years at Trainer's Midway 
  Diner in Bethel as hostess, where she was loved, and is still remembered every 
  day by her friends, the staff, and her customers. Helen was a role model to her 
  only child, Karen. She sacrificed to put her daughter through college, so that 
  Karen could achieve Helen's goal of being a teacher. They always had a loving 
  relationship, and were best friends, shopping together, going to the movies, 
  and doing girl stuff. She planted a spectacular flower garden every year full 
  of tulips, gladiolas, and sweet Williams. Helen loved all animals - the foxes 
  and the deer - and took care of stray cats. While she lived with her daughter, 
  Helen loved to be with her feline companions, who adored her. She was 
  instrumental in founding the Christ Free Evangelical Free Church, which she 
  loved attending every Sunday with her husband, George, and sister, Pearl 
  (bottom right of sisters' church photo). She read the bible and followed its 
  principles. Everyone loved Helen in her hometowns of Schubert and Bethel. When 
  she moved to West Chester in 2005 to be with her daughter, she made friends 
  everywhere - the senior center, bowling league, the wonderful North Hills 
  Exercise Center staff, all of the caring health care practitioners, the 
  attentive SarahCare Day Dare staff, her dance instructor, Valerie, her county 
  friends, her special friends, Paul, Pat, and Cindy, and her caregiver, Evelyn. 
  Evelyn and mother sang, played piano, went to the movies, took walks, 
  exercised, and were best friends as soon as they met. Everyone had a special 
  bond with Helen. In addition to her husband and parents, she was preceded in 
  death by her sweet sisters, Mae and Pearl; her brother, Bobby; and her niece, 
  Yvonne. Helen has fond memories of going dancing with her remaining sister 
  Jean, and tending the goats and playing with the cats at her brother Lee's. The 
  remaining nieces and nephews remember Helen as a kind, fashionable, funny, and 
  helpful aunt. Flowers can be sent for the services, or in lieu of flowers, 
  plant flowers in memoriam to Helen, to spread her love of flowers and beautify 
  the world as she did. Or spay, neuter, hug, or adopt an animal to be loved as 
  Helen did. Arrangements are being handled by Hill Funeral Home at 111 Godfrey 
  Road in Rehrersburg, Pennsylvania, 610-6783461/717-933-4316. After the viewing 
  from 9 to 10 a.m. on Saturday, October 25, 2008, a pastor from the Christ 
  Evangelical Free Church will lead the service. Her daughter encourages Helen's 
  family and friends to honor her mother by speaking about how Helen impacted 
  their lives. Karen also hopes that each person will privately remember the love 
  of a parent. Following the service, burial will be at the family plot in 
  Strausstown.  
  Published in the Lebanon Daily News on 10/19/2008  
  
  
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