Pictures & Obits - Healey/Vincent

courtesy of Patrick Wild

I was able to complete a couple more people in the tree today…and I must thank Patrick Wild from Ancestry.

Helen Aline Vincent was the daughter of George Gordon Vincent & Lina May Joyce.  George hails from Nova Scotia but relocated to Connecticut as a young man.

Based on the area directories, it looks like Helen married Andrew John Healey sometime in 1939 and in 1940 the newly married pair were found living with his parents….sadly, Andrew died later that year

courtesy of Patrick Wild

Danbury News-Times, 27 Nov 1940

Fatally Hurt In Pittsfield - Andrew J Healey, Danbury Brakeman, Run Over In Railroad Yards

Andrew J Healey, 25, of 11 Moss Avenue, a brakeman employed by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, was fatally injured last evening in Pittsfield, Mass, when he slipped and fell between two freight cars.  Although both legs were so badly crushed, they had to be amputated.  Mr Healey lived for five hours, dying late last night at St Luke's Hospital in Pittsfield.   The young man was a member of the crew of a traveling road switcher which worked north from State Line, Mass, switching freight at stations between State Line and Pittsfield.  The exact circumstances of the accident are not known.  Mr Healey was well known here and well regarded.  He was a graduate of Danbury High School in the class of 1933 and was graduated from St Peter's Parochial School in [1920].  He attended Danbury High his freshman year and attended high school in Cleveland, O his sophomore and junior years, returning here for his senior year.  He was a grandson of the late Andrew J Healey, who for many years was employed as a conductor on the switcher crew in the Danbury railroad yards and was a son of John T and Loretta Tierny Healy, of this city.  In addition to his wife, the former Helen Vincent, he is survived by his parents and by his grandmother, Mrs Daisy Healey, and by several uncles and aunts.  He was a member of St Joseph's Church and the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen.  The body will be brought here this afternoon and the funeral will be held at St Joseph's Church at a time to be announced.

Helen A Vincent - courtesy of Patrick Wild

Helen married again, this time to a John Joseph Ahearn and she died in 1998 in Georgia

Ridgefield Press, 19 Mar 1998

Helen A. Ahearn, a former bookkeeper and secretary for the Bacchiochi Construction Company, died Monday, March 9, at the Tanner Medical Center in Carrollton, Ga. She was 84, and the wife of John J. Ahearn of Carrollton. Born in New Milford on March 6, 1914, she was a daughter of George and Lina Joyce Vincent. A Danburian most of her life, she worked in her early years at the former Bacchiochi Construction in Ridgefield. Mrs. Ahearn was a member of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church in Carrollton and a former member of St. Joseph's Church, Danbury. She moved to Georgia eight years ago. Besides her husband, she is survived by a daughter, a sister, a brother, two granddaughters, and several nieces and nephews. Green Funeral Home in Danbury was in charge of arrangements. Burial was in St. Peter's Cemetery, Danbury.