Helen Connell McCafferty
Helen Connell McCafferty, 87, of Morgantown, W. Va., died Friday at her home.
She was born Sept. 16, 1924, in Butler, the daughter of the late John Turner Connell and Carrie Boulden Connell.
Her father served 40 years as superintendent of schools in Butler and involved his daughters in education from a very young age. Helen graduated from Grove City College with a bachelor's degree in education in 1945. She completed her master's degree at the University of Pittsburgh.
Helen taught high school in Freeport, Oil City and Cranberry. In 1949, she married Robert E. McCafferty of Butler. The couple lived in Baltimore, Md., from 1952 to 1959, and in Lexington, Ky., from 1959 to 1965. She was a volunteer at the University of Kentucky Medical Center and taught kindergarten at the Second Presbyterian Church.
In 1965, she moved to Morgantown and continued her volunteering at the West Virginia University Medical Center and was a life member of the Morgantown Service League. A member of the Suncrest United Methodist Church, Drummond Chapel Campus, she volunteered in the church office for many years.
She is survived by a daughter and her spouse, Carolyn and John Moses of Louisville, Ky.; a brother-in-law and his spouse, Victor Kenneth and Leah Rae McCafferty of Butler; four nephews and their spouses, Brian and Ruth and Kevin and Sandra McCafferty, all of Butler, Robert A. McCafferty and his spouse, Jodi, of Slippery Rock and David M. Patterson of Annapolis, Md.; a niece, Margaret Patterson Leous and her husband, Paul, of Clarence, N.Y.
She was preceded in death by her husband of 52 years, Dr. Robert E. McCafferty, and a sister and brother-in-law, Betty Connell Patterson and Maurice R. Patterson.
<B>MCCAFFERTY </B>— Friends of Helen Connell McCafferty, who died Friday, April 6, 2012, may call at the Suncrest United Methodist Church, Drummond Chapel Campus, 479 Van Voorhis Road, Morgantown, W.Va., from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Suncrest United Methodist Church with the Rev. Tim Halloran officiating. Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Northside Cemetery in Butler.Arrangements are entrusted to <B>Fred L. Jenkins Funeral Home</B>, Morgantown, W.Va.To send an online condolence, please visit www.fredjenkinsfuneralhome.com.
