Archive - Oct 10, 2012

Helen Meade Bryant of Tiffin passed away peacefully Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012.
Funeral Mass was celebrated Oct. 6 at St. Peter’s Catholic Church in Cosgrove with Father Edmond Dunn officiating. Burial was in the Church Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, a memorial fund has been established.
Helen was born on July 10, 1915. She is the daughter of Catherine Burns Meade and Thomas T. Meade. She was one of 11 children including Mary Ball, Alice Kuebrich, Genevieve Mann, Joe Meade, Leona Meade, Ralph Meade, Rob Meade, Thomas Meade, Lucile Stimmel and Marguerite Stockman.

It was quite a long time ago that I interviewed Clary Illian, a potter in Ely, for this newspaper. If I’m not mistaken, she hadn’t had her shop in downtown Ely for very long at the time, and when Brian, then editor, sent me off to interview her, I had never heard of her or seen any of her work. I was greatly impressed and wrote a lengthy, glowing article about her impressive array of mugs, bowls, pitchers and platters. In fact, some of what I wrote had to be cut because I had far too much to say for the allotted space in the paper.