Helen Amy Mitchell

HELEN AMY MITCHELL, daughter of ADELAIDE FRANCES PARSONS and MILES LECKIE MITCHELL, was born September 7, 1897 in Salina, Saline, Kansas,⁴⁵⁶ and died June 27, 1964 in Salina, Saline, Kansas.⁴⁵⁶ She is buried in Gypsum Hill Cemetery, Salina, Saline, Kansas.⁴⁵⁶

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Personal Information

Helen A. Mitchell

• taught clothing at Roosevelt-Lincoln Junior High from 1923-1962⁶⁷⁴⁸
• was a member of the Kansas State Teachers Association⁶⁷⁴⁸
• was a member of the Business and Professional Women's Foundation⁶⁷⁴⁸
• was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, Salina, Saline, Kansas. ⁶⁷⁴⁸

Education

Newspaper Articles

Salina Journal, July 11, 1962⁶⁷⁴⁷

Off To See Orient

Helen A. Mitchell, 415 S. 8th and Hilda Smith, 234 S. 10th, are shown leaving San Francisco for a two-month's National Education Association tour. They will sightsee and attend educational seminars in Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore. Miss Mitchell is a retired Roosevelt-Lincoln junior high teacher and Miss Smith teaches at Salina high school.

Salina Journal, May 17, 1964⁶⁷⁴⁹

Church Women's Needles Busy

By Mona Millikan

Fifty dresses made for little Korean girls in three months—that is the contribution of Helen Mitchell, 415 S. 8th, to the "Love Project" of the United Presbyterian Women of First Presbyterian Church.

The 1964 set brings the total to more than 200 dresses since she began four years ago.

Now retired, Miss Mitchell began turning out two to three dozen of the little garments a year while she was still teaching home economics.

She didn't let even a vacation tour abroad prevent her from doing what she considered her share.

She retired in 1963 after 29 years as a teacher, primarily at Lincoln-Roosevelt junior high school.

Miss Mitchell's sewing will clothe children in a school for the blind, many of them orphans. She made them for the girls who wear sized 3 to 8.

Her dresses and other good used and new clothing for all ages contributed through the women's group will go to rev. and Mrs. Spencer, Chungju, Korea.

A Presbyterian mission, The Chungju work also includes evangelistic and educational programs.

Mrs. Leon Padgett, chairman of Love Project shipments for more than 10 years, said they previously aided the Union Christian Service Center, Taejon, Korea.

"We began after the appeal from Korea for clothes for refugees coming from the north after the 'police action'," she said.

The shipments are called the "Love Project" because they are above the missionary aid quota for the group.

Mrs. Padgett said the women usually send 8-10 boxes of clothing at a time, each weighing 23 pounds.

"We must pay high postage so we send only the best," she said.

Incidentally, long-time Salinans may recall that Miss Mitchell's father was the assistant postmaster here, and her mother was a member of the pioneer Parsons family.

Obituaries

Salina Journal, June 28, 1964⁶⁷⁴⁸

Retired Teacher, Helen Mitchell, Dies At Hospital

Miss Helen Mitchell, 415 S. 8th, the retired Salina school teacher who after her retirement turned her skills as a seamstress to the making of little dresses for Korean orphans, died Saturday night at Asbury Hospital.

Miss Mitchell began her teaching career in Salina in 1923 and retired two years ago. She taught clothing at Roosevelt-Lincoln Junior High.

Since her retirement, Miss Mitchell had made hundreds of the little dresses to be shipped to orphans in Korea. The Journal published a feature article on her work for the orphans several weeks ago.

Born Sept. 7, 1897, in Salina Miss Mitchell spent her life teaching in the city.

She received her teaching degree from Kansas State University and got her Master's Degree from Columbia University, New York City.

She was a member of the Kansas State Teachers Association, the B.P.W. Association and the First Presbyterian Church.

Survivors include a sister, Mrs. Fenton McAllister, Grants Pass, Ore.; two brothers, Herbert H., Calif., and Walter R., Dallas, Tex.

Funeral arrangements will be announced by the Rush Smith Funeral Home.

Census Records

Date	Location	Enumerated Names
June 8, 1900491	Salina, Saline, Kansas	Miles Leckie Mitchell Adelaide Frances Parsons Harold Parsons Mitchell Helen Amy Mitchell
April 20, 1910490	Salina, Saline, Kansas	Miles Leckie Mitchell Adelaide Frances Parsons Helen Amy Mitchell Herbert Houston Mitchell Mary Katherine Mitchell Walter Rankin Mitchell
January 9, 19204723	Salina, Saline, Kansas	Miles Leckie Mitchell Adelaide Frances Parsons Helen Amy Mitchell Herbert Houston Mitchell Mary Katherine Mitchell Walter Rankin Mitchell
April 12, 19306742	Salina, Saline, Kansas	Miles Leckie Mitchell Adelaide Frances Parsons Helen Amy Mitchell Walter Rankin Mitchell
May 11, 19406741	Salina, Saline, Kansas	Adelaide Frances Parsons Helen Amy Mitchell