Book of Memories for Helen Davis Sublett

Condolence From Hall Funeral Home

Fri, 27 Dec 2013 08:39:28 EST

On this first anniversary of Helen's passing, we want you to know that you are in our thoughts and prayers. We hope that the memories of the past give you encouragement for the future as you walk each day with your loved one in your heart. It is our privilege and honor to serve your family. Hall Funeral Home

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Helen Davis Sublett ( 1916 – 2013) Was born Helen Crawford Davis, July 10, 1916 in her parents’ home in Port Clyde, Maine. Mother a school teacher, father a lobsterman both from old New England families. Graduated from Rockland High School, 1933, attended University of Maine, graduated from American International College, Springfield, Mass. Became a psychiatric aid at Hartford Retreat before World War II, Worked at Pratt and Whitney’s United Aircraft , Hartford, Connecticut as a secretary. There she met a Kentuckian named Carl C. Sublett working as a lathe operator at the factory manufacturing B-17 bombers and P-38 fighter-planes until attack on Pearl Harbor. They married August 20, 1942. He went into the U. S. Army and she to live with her sister‘s family, Rev. and Mrs. Chester R. Cooper and their children ; Richard, (now) Mary Ann Worthington , and Alan, in Chicopee, Mass. until war’s end. In 1945, after Carl’s honorable discharge they went south to be near his ailing father in Bristol, Tennessee. They started a family of their own and Helen was a full time mom. 1954 the family moved to Knoxville, Tennessee and summered in Maine. She worked in the Knoxville City Schools as a substitute teacher and soon began working with severely handicapped children and later as a well respected special educator of the ‘homebound’ until her retirement. Always, she handled ‘behind- the-scenes’ work furthering her husband Carl’s art career, (correspondence, cooking, and money matters) reveling in her family and friends. Cared for until her death by natural causes, as was her husband, Carl, until 5 years earlier, by their daughter Carol Colby, in the home built by she and her husband Mark, Union, Maine. Helen, 96, was preceded in death by: brother, Richard K. Davis; sister, Marian D. Cooper; step-brother, George Davis; brother, Sydney K. Davis; husband of 63 years, Carl C. Sublett; and great- grandson, Theo Clark Witham. She was a member of the Church Street Methodist Church, Knoxville. Survived by: Daughter, Carol Colby and sons; grandson to Helen, Jason Carl Witham, wife Anita Clark Witham, their son, Helen’s great -grandson, Bodie Ayden Witham; grandson, Taylor Burt Witham; all of Knox County, Maine; Helen’s son, Eric Sublett, Knoxville, TN. A celebration of life was Tuesday, January 9, 2013, Ridge Baptist Church, Ridge Rd., Martinsville, Maine, near her birthplace, Rev. James Robbins officiating. See hallfuneralhomes.com for memorials, pictures and condolences.

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Condolence From Marylyn and Glenn Bullock

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 14:11:48 EST

Helen and Carl were a wonderful, dear couple. We were blessed with their friendship for many years, and admired them both. Our condolences to their family.

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Condolence From Glen Nelson

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 04:59:14 EST

My condolences to the family, I will have all of you inmy thoughts and prayers - I went ti Jr High and High school with Eric

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Wed, 09 Jan 2013 21:53:32 EST

Helen's birthplace: Nanatuck

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Helen with her brother Syd Davis

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Shortly after wedding to Carl 1942

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