Helen Kurt
Helen Eleanor Kurt was born Septeber 1, 1912 to parents living on a farm in Pleasant Township. She attended Dunkirk schools until her parents built a home in Kenton. She then attended Kenton Grammar School and graduated in 1930 from Kenton High School where she was an honor student. After graduation, Helen enrolled at Findlay College where she completed the secretarial course of study in 1931.

After college, Helen worked at Champion Equipment Co., later known as Phillips and Davis Co. She retired in 1939 due to health problems.
She was a lifelong, faithful member of St. Johns United Church of Christ, being baptized there in 1914.
Helen was known as the lady who drove a 1951 Packard automobile into the late 1900's.
She remembered a number of charitable organizations in her will.