Helen Millin Freeman was born Helen Millin to Richard Bardwell Millin and Helen Taylor Jones Millin on April 20, 1929 in Missoula, Montana, growing up in Salt Lake City and moving to Phoenix, Arizona as a teenager.
Helen Freeman, 94, passed away Feb 22. Her funeral takes place at 10 a.m., Saturday, March 2, in Stamford.
She met her husband while serving lunch at the U.S. Army Specialized Training Program in 1945 during World War II. They were married in 1950 and moved to Washington, where she served as an organizer in graduate student housing and worked at Boeing as a computer programmer, and then to Berkeley, California where she also programmed vacuum tube computers at the University of California.
Helen holds an associate’s degree from Phoenix Junior College, a Baccalaureate from the University of Washington, and a Master of Science degree in education from the University of Bridgeport.
She moved to Connecticut in 1958 and joined the Fish Church, spending a year in Stamford before settling in the Springdale section of Darien, where she remained until 1990. She notably served as a Girl Scout leader, causing a brief kerfuffle by bringing the scouts to a sewage treatment plant.
She worked as a bus driver, bookkeeper, accountant and teacher, excepting a year in Germany in 1962-1963, a year in Brookline, Massachusetts in 1967-1968 and a year in Concord, New Hampshire in 1973-1974. She moved with her second son back to Stamford and thence to Bedford, New York. They moved to Brooklawn in Bridgeport to join her companion and finally Westville in New Haven, where she lived since 2010, enjoying Facebook and romance novels.
Helen is predeceased by her husband, Mark Phillips Freeman (1928-1984), her first son, Mark Phillips Jr. (1950-2009), her only daughter, Frances Clarice (1961-1989), and her brother Richard Bardwell Jr. (1930-2018).
She is survived by her sons, Aaron Jones, Ion Chalmers, and Charles Hosford; nine grandchildren, six great-grandchildren, her brother, Louis Grant, and her companion, Joe Kroll.
A funeral service for Helen will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, March 2, 2024, at the First Presbyterian “Fish” Church, 1101 Bedford St., Stamford, followed by burial at Spring Grove Cemetery in Darien.
— an obituary from Leo P. Gallagher & Son Funeral Home, where online condolences may be left