Submitted by: Dan Rich

 

Helen Rebecca Whitney

Dec. 12, 1914 - Jan. 30, 1994

 

South Bend Tribune 2/2/1994

SOUTH BEND - Services for Helen Rebecca Whitney, 79, of 501 S. Scott St., who died about 4 p.m. Sunday in her home after an illness, will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday in First A.M.E. Zion Church. Burial will be in St. Joseph Valley Memorial Park, Granger. Friends may call one hour before services in the church. Alford's Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.

 

Mrs. Whitney retired from South Bend Community School Corp. She was born Dec. 12, 1914, in Grand Rapids, and lived in South Bend since 1965.

 

In 1937, in Detroit, she married Houston E. Whitney Sr. He died in 1986. She is survived by five daughters, Mary Ann McRae, Ellen Louetta Ransey, and Gloria Jean Roseberry, all of Ann Arbor, Karen Rossum of Dallas, and Patricia Taylor of Kalamazoo; three sons, Houston Jr. of Ann Arbor, Robert of Ypsilanti, Mich., and John of Middleville, Mich.; 25 grandchildren; 26 great-grandchildren; four great-great-grandchildren; and five sisters, Mary Miller of Detroit, Renelda Robinson, Natalie Stein, Helen Paul and Florence Nickerson, all of South Bend. She was a member of the church.