Helen Bond Doyle Brown

May 10, 1923 - January 28, 2015

Helen Bond Doyle Brown died January 28, 2015. She was born to Ethel and George Doyle on May 10th, 1923 in Somerville, NJ. Helen graduated from Somerville High School & Trenton State Teacher's College ('44) . She married her college sweetheart, Arthur Brown. They lived in Newington, CT and Plainfield, NJ. The highlight of their early marriage was the year they spent in Athens, Greece where she taught at the Anglo-American School in Psychico. Art was a Fulbright professor working to establish a national physical therapy program. While there, they were honored to have met the King and Queen of Greece. Helen taught 24 years in the public school system in Plainfield and 15 plus years as an American History teacher at The Wardlaw-Hartridge School. Helen was a member of the DAR, several women’s clubs, historical societies, garden and book clubs, as well as the Carrier Foundation Auxiliary. Summers were spent with family and friends in Sag Harbor, LI. Her interests in antiques, art, history and gardening lasted her lifetime. Helen’s greatest project was restoring her childhood home in Belle Mead, which has been in her family since she was 3 yrs old. Helen is survived by her husband, Arthur Brown; daughters, Diane Brown Horton and Roxane Brown-Campello; son-in-law, Mario Campello; brother-in-law, Donald Thiel; sister-in-law, Jeannette Brown Lindgren; seven grandchildren: Kristina Horton, Dr. Cheryl Lynn Horton (husband Dr. James Click), Nicholas Horton, Rebecca Horton, Audra Horton, Sarah Brown-Campello, Nathaniel Brown-Campello; one great-grandson, Jackson William Click and many nieces and nephews and their families. Sisters, Miriam Thiel and Doris Buckner, brother-in-law, Harold Buckner as well as son-in-law, William Horton, have preceded Helen in death. Family and friends are invited to a memorial service, which will be held at Stonebridge at Montgomery in Skillman on Saturday, February 7, 2015 at 12:00pm. Arrangements are under the direction of the Hopewell Memorial Home, Hopewell Borough. www.HopewellMH.com / www.HopewellMemorialHome.com