Helen GENDRON

Helen Bushey Tilley, 87, of Portsmouth and West Stewartstown, died on Sunday, November 6, 2005 at the Belknap County Nursing Home in Laconia. Born in Lambton, Quebec, on December 3, 1917, she was the daughter of the late Henri and Anna (Turgeon) Gendron. She was a former member of New Hope Baptist Church in Portsmouth; Emerson Hovey Post #168, Ladies' Auxiliary, Veterans of Foreign Wars; and for many years was a volunteer at the Senior Center in Portsmouth. Helen was predeceased by her husband, Kenneth E. Tilley; by a son, Willard Joseph Bushey Jr.; and her first husband, Willard Joseph Bushey. The family includes three sons, John Alfred Bushey of Stewartstown, Edward Louis Bushey of New Boston, N.H., and Henry Paul Bushey of Fort Worth, Texas; three daughters, Patricia Louise Hughs of Rochester, Ramona Bushey of Las Vegas, Nev., and Linda Phelps of Claremont; numerous grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; three sisters, Claire Neye of New York, Cecile O¹Brien of Florida, Melda Allen of Vermont; a brother, Louis Gendron of Montpelier, Vt.; and numerous nieces and nephews. Graveside services will be held at the Riverbank Cemetery in Stowe, Vt., at 11 a.m. on Friday, November 18. Donations may be made to the Salvation Army, PO Box 6534, Portsmouth, NH 03802-6534. Arrangements are entrusted to J. Verne Wood Funeral Home, Buckminster Chapel in Portsmouth.