Pantagraph, The (Bloomington, IL) 
June 12, 1989   
Edition: FINAL Section: Page: C5  

 

Helen Dean McGraw, 74, R.R. 13, Bloomington, died at 5:25 a.m. yesterday (June 11, 1989) at Brokaw Hospital.
Funeral services will be at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday at Carmody-Flynn Funeral Home, Bloomington, and at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Holy Trinity Church, Bloomington. The Rev. John J. Dietzen will officiate. Burial will be at Holy Cross Cemetery, Normal.
Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. tonight at the funeral home with a rosary recited at 7:30 p.m.
Mrs. McGraw was born Aug. 10, 1914,in Armington, the daughter of H. Ross and Hazel DeLong Hayes. She married Thomas F. McGraw on Dec. 27, 1937, in Bloomington. He survives.
Also surviving are one son, Thomas F. McGraw II, Fairfax, Va.; a daughter, Kathleen M. Diesel, Coldwater, Mich.; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
One brother and one sister preceded her in death.
She retired in 1980 after 30 years as a bookkeeper/secretary of the Masonic Supply Company in Bloomington. She attended Illinois State University in Normal.
She was a member of Holy Trinity Church and its Altar and Rosary Society. She was a member of the Blooming Grove Ladies Aid Society, and the charter chapter of the American Business Woman's Association in Bloomington where she served as president in 1976 and 1977. The group named her Woman of the Year for 1978-79.
Memorials may be made to the Holy Trinity Church.
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Helen McGraw
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