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Helen Y. Yerger - Madison Parish, Louisiana

From Tallulah Madison Journal, October 21, 1976

Mrs. Helen Y. Yerger, 86, of 519 High St. Easton Penn. died Monday, October 4 at an Easton Hospital. She had lived in Easton since 1958. Before that she was a school teacher and head of the French and History department at Tallulah High School. Born in Easton on Oct. 13, 1889, she was daughter of the late George F. P. and Mary Amanda Frick Young.

She was a 1912 graduate of the George school, George, Pa., and a 1917 graduate of Swarthmore College.

She was a member of Trinity Episcopal Church, Easton; National and Louisiana Retired Teachers Associations and Delta Kappa Gamma, honorary teachers association.

Her husband, Dr. William Purnell Yerger, a physician, died in 1943. A son, Maj. William P. Yerger Jr., died in 1963.

Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Helen M. Dew, Fairfax, Va.; a brother, Dr. Frederick F. Young, New Castle, Pa., and two sisters, Mrs. Jacob J. Raub, with whom she lived, and Mrs. John M. Ogden, Oxford Pa.

Memorial services were held at 10:30 a.m. Friday, October 8, in Trinity Episcopal Church, Easton.

Arrangements were made by the Ashton Funeral Home in Easton. Interment was in the Easton Heights Cemetery.