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Helen Myers McLoraine

Helen McLoraine Obituary

McLORAINE, HELEN MYERS Helen Myers McLoraine died January 23, 2003, following a fall at the Reunion Arena, Dallas, Texas, while attending the U.S. National Figure Skating Championships. Services will be Friday, January 31, 2003, 11 a.m., at St. Andrew United Methodist Church, 6325 S. University Blvd. in Centennial. Rev. James Garnes and Dr. Harvey Hartz will officiate. A reception will follow in Fellowship Hall. Burial will be in the Ottawa Avenue Cemetery, Ottawa, Illinois. Helen is well known as a sponsor of many young Figure Skaters who have competed at the national and international level for over 30 years, including 1984 Olympic Champion Scott Hamilton. She has been an avid philanthropist, contributing to many charitable organizations with special emphasis in the fields of education, medical research and youth social welfare. She was a successful business woman. in the oil and gas industry over a period of six decades. She was a member of St. Andrew United Methodist Church. She is survived by a first cousin, Tom Harper of Sherman Oaks, California, and numerous other cousins throughout seven states. Memorials may be made to: Urban Peak, 1630 S. Acoma, Denver, CO 80223; St. Andrew Building Fund, 6325 S. University Blvd., Centennial, CO 80121; Scott Hamilton C.A.R.E.S. Initiative c/o Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44195.

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Published by Denver Post on Jan. 26, 2003.

Memories and Condolences
for Helen McLoraine

41 Entries

audrae gillespie

January 21, 2021

Loved sitting with her at competitions. She had great insight to skaters programs and constructive criticism. So many skaters benefited from her generosity and advice. She was a mentor to many.

Lou and Shirley Sherman

February 6, 2003

Helen was a friend to the competitors and to all of us in skating.We miss her.

Robert McLoraine

January 31, 2003

Helen was a great giving person who touched so many. Sharing the name McLoraine has given a great sense of pride and enjoyment in the achievements of those she supported. We were very honored that she attended our wedding nearly ten ago now. She ordered a genealogy search for me knowing that we shared that hobby.

Amy, Derek & Isaac Bolton

January 31, 2003

We remember Helen with fondness and love. She attended our wedding, (even in a December snowstorm!) and her generosity enabled us to purchase our first house. It saddens us that our new son will know her spirit and joy only through our memories.

Doris Bodmer

January 30, 2003

I will always remember Helen as one of the great people in skating. She has done so very much for the sport and we surely will all miss her so much. Doris

David Holmes

January 30, 2003

I have known Helen's mother Cousin Mabel and then Cousin Helen for more than 55 years as they lived across the street from us growing up and then after they moved when we would go for visits. Her mother was a class act as was Cousin Helen. A wonderful sense of humor. I remember at a family wedding on a cool fall Minnesota day, I was driving Cousin Helen in an old restored 1948 Packard which caught on fire and began to smoke. We both got out rather quickly-Cousin Helen more gracefully and with more equipoise than I and then she chuckled over "how the weather in the car had certainly turned hot". She will be sorely missed.

Susan and Michael Creighton

January 30, 2003

Helen has been a part of our lives for as long as we can remember. We will certainly miss the time spent with her, her quiet sense of humor and the twinkle in her eye.

Richard & Shelley Dalley

January 30, 2003

We Loved her. She will be missed by many.

Richard & Shelley

Bob & B.L. Wylie

January 29, 2003

Helen was up beat, happy and enjoying life as we hugged, laughed and reminisced at nationals in Dallas. We will always remember her that way! The world of friends who were fortunate to know her will miss her dearly.

Mary Cook

January 29, 2003

We have lost an incredible friend. One minute Helen was there in her seat at the arena doing what she loved to do--watching those young people out on the ice in pursuit of their dreams. Dreams she helped many to achieve. The next minute she was taken from us. Her loss leaves a void in the figure skating family, but her legacy will continue in those she helped and inspired.

Bobbie Pottenger

January 29, 2003

Our family enjoyed when Helen would come and stay with us during her visits to Chicago. We were her "date" for many University of Chicago functions and we would have such a grand time. My children enjoyed spending many hours talking and laughing with her. Our family has a yearly reunion Memorial Day weekend at the family cemetary in Dayton Illinois and Helen always enjoyed visiting with the extended family. Helen always helped me cook for the potluck lunch that was served at the reunion.We shared many a faux pas in the kitchen.We will miss her visits, her laughter, the twinkle in her eyes. But now she will be closer to us and we can visit her more now.

Bobbie, Larry, Katie and Lindsey

William (Bill) Rogovy

January 29, 2003

Having known Helen long before I became a skating fan, I am at a loss to be able to express my sorrow by her passing. She wouldn't let me take her arm and I couldn't catch her as she fell. She will be missed.

Helen Koch

January 29, 2003

Friend of Helen's for more than 50 years, I will miss her happy smiles and good notes.

Allen Birdsong

January 29, 2003

Helen was an incredible woman of strength and compassion. It was an honor knowing her and she will be sorely missed by all. We are all better people for having known Helen.

Darlene Bell

January 29, 2003

Helen was an inspiration to many people and their dreams, outside of skating as well. She so generously supported the House Ear Research Clinic in Los Angeles, California. Thanks to Helen's generosity and the House Ear Clinic "I can hear skating music"! Thank you, Helen

Gale Tanger

January 29, 2003

Helen's radiant smile and enthusiastic greetings will always be remembered. She enjoyed her role as a quiet, yet vigilant supporter of the sport. We have all been gifted by her presence.

Mary Louise & Ben Wright

January 28, 2003

Helen McLoraine made an enormous contribution to the sport, especially through her sponsorship of Scott Hamilton, Judy Blumberg and Michael Seibert, among others. She will be sorely missed and long rememebred.

Mary Louise and Ben Wright

Donna McLoraine Watson

January 28, 2003

Helen will be greatly missed by so many. Her encouragement led me to college and helped shape my life. May she rest in peace.

Joan Gruber

January 28, 2003

Helen made the skating world a happier place. Her smile, her enthusiasm, her support and her many kindnesses will be greatly missed. May she rest in peace.

Dorian Valles

January 28, 2003

Even though I only met Helen once at a National competition several years ago, I was always a fan. For those whose lives she touched in such a positive way, my deepest condolences. Helen's special radiance and friendship will be greatly missed in the skating community.

Ricky Harris

January 28, 2003

It is hard to imagine what skating would have been without Helen's emotional and financial support of so many of our top skaters in the past and present.

My husband and I were fortunate to be at breakfast with her just hours before her untimely death.

Helen was engaged in the delicious task of enjoying fulfilling other's dreams. She was a sentient lady.

Ricky Harris

Taffy Holliday

January 28, 2003

Helen was a wonderful, inspirational and very intelligent woman who enabled many, many skaters to realize their dreams. Her passing will create a gap that will not easily be filled, and we will all miss her.

ellen cameron

January 28, 2003

I am very sorry to hear about the passing of Helen. I met her at the 1988 Olympics in Calgary. I remember fondly watching the battle of the Brians with her. Our paths did cross several times over the years. I will miss her, and her warmth and caring that she presented. My condolences to her family and friends

Sam Auxier

January 28, 2003

What a wonderful lady who touched so many lives so positively. She was a delight to be around and the skating world will never forget her!

Toni Reitter

January 27, 2003

Helen was and still is a great inspiration to many people. Her work with sponsering young figure skaters, as well as her work with other chairities speaks highly of her devotion to mankind. Over the years I've read hundreds of articles on skating and she's tied in to a huge percentage. So for that I thank her as a fan of the sport! God Bless you, Helen! :)

Audrae Gillespie

January 27, 2003

I was privileged to know Helen for many years. We often sat together at regional, sectional, national and world competitions observing the skaters. To all the skaters she sponsored, she truly became a guiding force in their lives. I shall miss her and her wonderful smile. I am glad I had a chance to visit with her in Dallas.

Audrae Gillespie

Vincent Diuguid

January 27, 2003

I am sorry to hear about great loss to the skating community she will always be remember

Rosalie Resch

January 27, 2003

Helen was a great friend to the women's athletic community at the University of Chicago. Her generosity and support in the foundation of the Graduate Women's Athletic Association will always be remembered.

Diane G Miller

January 27, 2003

Helen...

For all the lives you touched in such a positive way...for all you gave so others could live their dream...for the VERY SPECIAL PERSON you are to each of us...you will be missed, but NEVER FORGOTTEN.

Roxane White Urban Peak

January 27, 2003

Mrs. McLoriane's kind and generous spirit will be greatly missed by all of us who help high risk and homeless youth.

Joelle

January 27, 2003

A great loss to the skating community. My condolences

Paul Martini

January 27, 2003

The warmth and generosity of Helen will be sadly missed by all. Her nurturing and supportive qualities ment so much to so many, but more than anything, we will miss her radiant smile when she would sit in the stands to applaud each and every skater.

Tracey Poletis

January 27, 2003

Thank you Helen for all the years of love and support for skating. You have been a very important person in the development of young skaters in attaining their goals. You will be missed dearly. Thanks for all your help!

Tracey Poletis

Sharon Carz

January 27, 2003

Helen, thank you once again and always, for the support that you have given Doug and I in our skating career together. We will always remember your contribution to us, as well as all the skaters that you have been a "Fairy God Mother" to.

Always,

Sharon Carz

Amy Jaramillo-Lambert

January 26, 2003

Helen had an enormous impact on my life. She gave me strength just knowing that she believed in me. Recently, I wrote to tell her how special she was and that I named the "Lady with the Parasol" after her. (I bought that Monet painting with the wedding gift Helen gave us) To me the "Lady with the Parasol" is beautiful, passionate, and angelic, and will forever be "Helen."

Cindy Perpich

January 26, 2003

I will always cherish the night Mrs. Mac. took a group of us to a German Restaurant in Chicago and the unbelievably odd entertainment we all laughed through. Thank you for your large arms. So many have felt them around our lives.

Patti Weir

January 26, 2003

Helen was a wonderful person whom I will miss greatly. She has been a great help to myself and my family with my son's skating career up to this point. I am so glad that I got to see her in Dallas before this terrible accident happened. And Im glad she was doing something she loved. The Weir family will miss her alot. May God Bless and watch over you Helen. You were truly a shining star to alot of people.

Mahlon Bradley

January 26, 2003

I owe so much to Mrs. McLoraine. Just when I thought I could not afford medical school, she supported me.

She was a true friend and supporter of so many good people in skating.

My family will miss her.

NancyMeiss Meiss

January 26, 2003

Helen, was one of the finest people, I have ever known. Never did she think of herself, she only thought of giving to others. Her joy in life was in giving, never expecting any return for herself. It was a true pleasure to be a friend, and an honor to be in her company.She will be greatly missed by so many people of all walks of life.

Heidi Delio Thibert

January 26, 2003

Helen will be remembered by all for her unfaltering support of many skaters, her enduring friendships with many judges and coaches, and her generosity to figure skating in the United States.

I personally will miss her wise advice and keen interest in my coaching and my children and family life.

For my family, we will miss her presence at Thanksgiving and Easter dinners, and on those days, we will remember her a little more fondly.

I am grateful for her friendship with my parents and I know they will miss her a great deal, as many others will as well.

Becky Calvin

January 26, 2003

Helen was a wonderful person and will truly be missed. I'm glad I was able to see her, even if it was brief, prior to her death.

Becky Calvin

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