Helen (Moutseos) Columbus |
| Posted 2009-12-04 by Pat Wilson |
| Helen Moutseos Columbus, a longtime community volunteer, died Friday, March 20, 1992, of kidney failure and diabetes. She was 71. Columbus worked and was a volunteer for the Salvation Army for 55 years. She first got involved in the organization as a child, said her husband, William "Lou" Columbus. "She started as a real young girl going to Salvation Army camps," he said, adding that she worked as a counselor at the camps after she graduated from high school. Helen Columbus also did volunteer work for many local organizations throughout her life, including the Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, hospitals, the Tucson Symphony, the Kidney Foundation and KUAT. She also taught Sunday School at churches of different denominations. "My wife's motto was to serve others, and that's what she did all her life," William Columbus said. Helen Columbus was chosen Woman of the Year in 1978 by the University of Arizona Business and Professional Women's Club and was honored by the Beta Kappa Chapter of Epsilon Sigma Alpha International Society. She graduated from John Hay High School in Cleveland, and attended Finn College, the University of New Mexico and Phoenix Community College. She lived in Tucson for the past 18 years. Besides her husband, she is survived by a daughter, Martha Rose Austin of Phoenix; a son, Louis Elias Columbus of Huntsville, Ala.; sisters, Georgia Young of Chatsworth, Calif., and Maryann Pardo of Lakewood, Ohio; brothers, Nick Moutsopoulas and Gustave Moutseos, both of Cleveland, and Louis Moutsios of Parma, Ohio. Visitation March 23, 1992, at Valley Funeral Home, 2545 N. Tucson Blvd. Funeral services March 24 at St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church, 1145 E. Fort Lowell Road. Interment will follow at Evergreen Cemetery Mortuary & Memorial Park, 3015 N. Oracle Road. The Arizona Daily Star March 23, 1992 |
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