Helene H. Veazie

September 10, 1926 - June 4, 2015

Helene H. Veazie died June 4, 2015, in Corvallis. She was 88. Helene was born on Sept. 10, 1926, to Helen and John R. Hurley of White Plains, New York. Following high school graduation she studied French at Laval University in Quebec, Canada, and then enrolled at Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut. She went on to graduation from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. After college she worked for J. Walter Thompson Company in New York City. In 1950 she married Wildes “Bill” Veazie in White Plains, New York. They moved to Westport, Connecticut, where they raised their three children. Helene was active in PTA, League of Women Voters and the Westport Women’s Club as well as helping her husband during election years when he served as Second Selectman of Westport. In 1970 she and her family moved to Flintridge, California, for her husband’s new job. In 1981 they retired to Palm Desert, California, where Helene was active in the Palm Desert County Club Association and she enjoyed many big band concerts with her husband, who played with the Dixieland Ramblers. In 2012 she moved to The Regent in Corvallis to be closer to her family and made many new friends there. Survivors include daughter Beth (Terry) Lambright of Corvallis; sons Bill Veazie Jr. of Parker, Colorado, and Bob Veazie (formerly from Corvallis) of Sarasota, Florida; as well as five grandchildren including Jessica Hoopes and Matthew Veazie of Corvallis; and two great-grandchildren. A private burial will be held at Desert Memorial Park in Palm Springs Cemetery District in California. Arrangements were made with DeMoss-Durdan Funeral Home.