Helen Elaine Erickson

Helen Taylor Erickson, 88, passed away peacefully on December 25, 2025 in Las Vegas, NV. She was born in 1937 in Brigham City, Utah to Wilburn and Julia Beth (Rollins) Taylor, and spent most of her life in the Davis County, UT and Las Vegas, NV areas.

Helen’s immediate family includes her husband Bill (recently deceased, November 20, 2025), son Todd (wife Kimberly, Cypress CA), son Pace (deceased), grand children William, Geoffrey, and Lauren, and two great grand children. Helen is also survived by brother James Taylor (Farmington) and preceded in death by half brother Rollin Mitchell.

For most of her youth Helen lived in the foothills of Farmington, UT, where she enjoyed growing up on her parent’s fruit orchard as well as the area’s ice skating, hiking, and swimming opportunities. Adventurous, social, a dancer, and a little bit of a farm girl, she was involved with the 4H Club and generally loved just having fun with her many close girlfriends and her 32 wonderful cousins. She was a graduate of Davis High School (1956).

In 1959 following a romance kindled from a spark on a blind date, Helen married her husband and sweetheart of 67 years, William V. Erickson of Bountiful. This enviable team had two sons, and lived in the Woods Cross-Bountiful area until retiring at their final home on the golf course in Summerlin, NV in 1998. Helen and husband Bill’s love and devotion for each other was strong - each living into their late eighties, filling in for each other’s physical disabilities, and passing away barely a month apart.

A loving wife, mother, and daughter, Helen doted on her husband and boys. Helen also worked as an administrative secretary. Over her life she took employment at the Utah Theatre (Salt Lake City), Shell Oil Company (San Francisco), W.S. HatchCo (Woods Cross), and finally Thatcher Company (Salt Lake City) before retiring at age 62. Her typing, spelling and shorthand was impeccable, and Helen was the first at work to swap her typewriter and carbon paper for a computer and plotter. Her role and value at her last position so important, renowned chemist Lawrence Thatcher himself once lovingly quipped with his hand in the air, “Go ask Helen. She runs the company!” Helen continued working until her retirement despite a neurological disability limiting her mobility that began in her early forties.

Helen enjoyed quilting, sewing, knitting and crochet; skills she shared with her mother. She also loved 4-wheeling and exploring the mountains and deserts with the couple’s 5th wheel in tow, boating on Lake Powell with friends, and traveling on one of their many sea cruises. Over her life she participated was an officer in the PTA, and was Secretary of the Bountiful City Jeep Posse “Jeepettes” where she was trained in emergency response and First Aid. After her move to Nevada post-retirement, she became very involved with the Summerlin area Red Hat Society.

Very computer savvy for someone her age, she loved using her trusty iPad to do the accounting and pay the couple’s bills, and to keep up with the grandkids and photos of the great grandkids. She was also the couple’s designated driver, operating her vehicles with hand controls and without accident for over 45 years.

In the final months of life, Helen enjoyed spending time with husband Bill as well as lifelong and new friends. One of her great enjoyments was time spent with her adorable caregivers at their assisted living facility, Oakmont of Las Vegas. There, Helen and husband Bill made fast friends, quickly became favorites of the care staff because of their kind, friendly nature.

Helen was dearly loved by her husband, sons, grand children, cousins, and many friends. She made a mark on the lives of many, and will be fondly remembered.

Helen requested that her and husband Bill’s ashes be scattered at sea in a private ceremony with close family and friends.