Helen Y. Dixon, 102, passed away on February 24, 2018. In 1936 she graduated from Peru State Teachers College in Peru, Nebraska. In 1939 she graduated from the University of Nebraska in Lincoln with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Education. In 1942 she joined the National Board of the YMCA as a program assistant in USO work and continued full time in the USO for several years, with postings in Lompoc and San Bernardino, California; the Panama Canal Zone; and the Territory of Hawaii. Her husband, John, was killed in an accident in Japan in 1946 during the U.S. occupation there. She was a PE teacher in Owatonna, Minnesota, from 1948 to 1950. She and her son then moved to Corvallis, Oregon, where she worked as a librarian from 1951 to 1953. In 1953 they moved to Tempe where she was first employed by Mathews Library at Arizona State College. She then taught 3rd grade in the Roosevelt District in Phoenix, from 1955 to 1979. Helen is survived by her son, a niece and a nephew. She was predeceased by her husband and a sister. (Source: Arizona Republic)