HELEN LOUISE CANTWELL
(née STIMMLER)

Born: April 5, 1901    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died: February 10, 1989    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Buried:     Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Cheltenham Township, Montgomery, Pennsylvania


Parents:
 
 
Education:

Married:



Nicholas "Nick" Stimmler
Nora (Honora) A. Carr

Graduated from high school [Source: 1940 U.S. Census]

Francis Edward Cantwell
1922
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania


 
Children: Eleanor Miriam Abt. 1924  
  Dorothea Marita Abt. 1927  
  Joan Frances Abt. 1932  

Notes: At the time of the Apr. 20, 1910 U.S. Federal Census, Helen was 9 years old and living with her parents and younger
  sister Dorothea in Philadelphia Ward 21, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her father was working as a carpenter for a contractor.

At the time of the Jan. 9, 1920 U.S. federal census, Helen was 18 years old and living with her parents and sister Dorothy at 328 Market Street in Manayunk, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Both she and her sister were working as stenographers in the fiber trade. Her father was working as a carpenter at the mill.
 
Helen married Francis Edward Cantwell in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1922 when she was 21 and Frank was 19 years old.
 
At the time of the Apr. 5, 1930 U.S. federal census, Helen was 29 years old and living with her husband Frank and their two daughters in their own home valued at $4,000 located at 315 Kingsley Street in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Frank was working as a shipper in a furniture factory. The family owned a radio. Her eldest daughter Eleanor was attending school.
 
At the time of the April 13, 1940 U.S. Federal Census, Helen stated she was 38 years old and living with her husband Frank Cantrell, daughters Eleanor, Dorothea and Joan, and her widowed mother, Nora, at 315 Kingsley Street in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She said she had graduated from high school. Her mother was working as a housekeeper for a private residence; she worked 40 hours a week for 52 weeks in 1939 and made $275. Husband Frank was working as an accountant with the WPA. He had not been employed in the previous year.
 
Helen died on Feb. 10, 1989 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the age of 87. She was buried in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Cheltenham Township, Montgomery, Pennsylvania.

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