HELEN GEORGE CARTER

Helen George Carter Helen George Carter, 87, of Rancho Bernardo, CA, died Friday, Nov. 2, 2012, at 3:40 p.m. in Ventura, CA. She was born on Feb. 13, 1925, in Hollis, NY. She was the daughter of Oscar and Helen (nee Mollenhauer) George. She married James Theodore "Jim"Carter on May 17, 1947, in Hollis, NY, he preceded her in death on Sept. 16, 2001. She is survived by two daughters, Judith (John) Troike of Sisters, OR and Janice (Steve Koch) Larson of Ventura, CA and one son, James (Debra) Carter of Wheaton, IL. There are five grandchildren, Jennifer and Jonathan Troike, Christin and Kelly Carter and Jay Larson; and one brother, O.R. George (Jeannie) of Olympia, WA. After high school and early in her marriage, Helen worked for AT&T and Illinois Bell Telephone Company. In 1950, at the beginning of the Korean Conflict, Jim was called back to Army active duty and Helen, along with daughter, Judy, joined him in Cayugas, CA, just outside Vandenberg AFB. When they returned to Illinois in 1953, they spent the next six years in Park Forest, and then finally settled and lived in East Dundee, IL. Helen was an active member of the community, serving as president of the Dundee Women's Club and president of the Women of the Church at St. James Episcopal. Retiring to Rancho Bernardo, CA in 1979, she remained active as a member of the RB Lady Lions, The Belles, and as a member of St. Bartholomew Episcopal Church in Poway. Throughout her life she remained an avid bridge player and enjoyed traveling throughout the US with her family, and to Europe, Australia and New Zealand with Jim after retirement. Her funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Nov. 17, at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Ojai, CA. Interment will take place the following day at St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church in Poway.