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- Clarksburg Exponent Telegram, 23 April 2001
Austin R. Helmick
SALEM -- Austin R. Helmick, 82, of Carolina Avenue, died at 2:25 p.m. Saturday, April 21, 2001, in the United Hospital Center, following a long illness.
He was born Jan. 22, 1919, at Green Hill, Braxton County, a son of the late William Ellis and Bertha Butcher Helmick.
His wife, Athelene Blagg Helmick, whom he married Feb. 14, 1942, survives.
Also surviving are one son, Aaron A. and wife, Mary Helmick, Bridgeport; two daughters, Lenora Riley, Clarksburg, and Mrs. Robert (Loretta) Pernell, Deep Creek Lake, Md.; two brothers, William Darson and wife, Anna Helmick, Cummins, Ga., and Harvey E. and wife, Shirley Helmick, Paden City; three sisters, Mrs. William (Irene) Martin, Huntington, Golda Johnson, Wellington, Ohio, and Glenna Montgomery, Elyria, Ohio; four grandchildren, Robert Eric Pernell, Erica Lynn James, Shannon Leigh Riley and George Robert Riley.
He was also preceded in death by two sisters, Pauline Burnside and Marmel Crouser.
Mr. Helmick was a member of the Green Hill Methodist Church, and while living in Salem, he attended the West End United Methodist Church. He was a member of Salem Lodge No. 84, A.F. and A.M.
In his early adulthood he was a rural mail carrier in Lewis and Braxton counties. He later attended the Harrison Camp, Civilian Conservation Corps at Quiet Dell where he learned the mechanics of construction. He later learned to apply these well and learned skills when he was a foreman on the construction of the Sutton Dam in the late 1950s.
During 1960, he and his family moved to Salem, where he became a manager of the farm at the Industrial Home for Girls. He was later a physical plant director for Salem College. All of this valuable experience enabled him to enter into the construction industry, namely, the building of Faith Fellowship Church at Willow Beach, the extensive renovation of the Quiet Dell United Methodist Church, and the building of a new First Baptist Church of Nutter Fort. All of these endeavors were under the direction of Robert Pernell, architect.
Friends may call at the Greathouse Funeral Home, Salem, from 2-4 and 6-9 p.m. today. The funeral service will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Green Hill Methodist Church with the Rev. Stephen Rector presiding. Interment will be in the Church Cemetery. The body will lie in state at the church from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Tuesday.
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