Helen Turner

Helen Turner

• Father: Joseph R. Turner b. circa 1852, d. 18 April 1918
• Mother: Helen Emma Dallas b. October 1877, d. 21 December 1905

• Helen Turner was born on 14 February 1901 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• Mabel R. Turner and Helen Turner appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Warminster Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, at Christ's Home for Homeless and Destitute Children.
• The following appeared on 20 December 1915 in The Allentown Democrat: (Doylestown, Pa., Dec. 16) Sixty children, ranging in age from 1 to 8 years, were safely taken out of a burning dormitory of Christ's Home for Homeless and Destitute Children at Warminster, near here, today. The children were at dinner when fire was discovered in the basement. The older children were marched out while attendands with the help of some of the older boys and girls helped to carry out the babies.
       The interior of the building, which was recently constructed at an expense of $20,000, was badly damaged. The children were cared for in other buildings of the institution.
• It is a slim possibility that in 1920 she was enumerated as Helen Turner (age 20) working as a servant in the household of Herbert Bloeser in Erie, Pennsylvania.
• She married Charles Mutch in 1923 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• Charles Mutch and Helen Turner appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at 7330 Palmetto Street enumerated with Charles' widowed mother Emmie Mutch (age 62) and his brother Edward (20).
• Charles Mutch and Helen Turner appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1940 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at 7332 Palmetto Street. Also in the household was Charles' widowed mother Emma Mutch (age 72.)
• She was employed as an assembler of electrical cords, according to the 1940 census.
• The SSDI lists Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the last residence of record of Helen Turner.
• Helen Turner died in February 1969.
• Charles Mutch became a widower at her death.

• Last Edited: 8 Dec 2014