Helen Marie Kearney

7/17/1934 3/4/2016

Helen Marie Kearney was born July 17, 1934 to Thomas Elmer and Agnes Sara (Coles) Whittaker, in Evanston, Wyoming. She grew up in Evanston and graduated from high school there. Helen and Arnold Richardson were married on June 23, 1954, in Evanston. Helen was a nurse and lived in Moab, Utah and Collbran, Colorado before moving to Grand Junction, where she has lived for forty six years. Her hobbies were painting, crocheting, knitting, her grandchildren, and genealogy.

Helen is survived by her sons, Lon Thomas Richardson, Fort Bridger, Wyoming, Scott Evard Richardson, Fruita, Colorado, and Sterling Matt Richarson, Casper, Wyoming her daughters, Kristi Lynn Mease, Collbran, Colorado, and Arna Kay Hoffman, Clifton, Colorado, a sister, Lorna Fowler, Lovell, Wyoming , nineteen grand children and forty five great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband Arnold Richardson, who passed away June 11, 1970 in Grand Junction, Colorado and her second husband Phillip Kearney. Two brothers, Richard (Dick) Whittaker and Thomas (Butch) Whittaker, and her parents have also predeceased her.

There will be a visitation at 9:00 a.m., Thursday, March 10, 2016 at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 2881 Orchard Avenue, Grand Junction, Colorado, with the church service to follow at 10:00 a.m. Interment will follow at the Palisade Cemetery, Palisade, Colorado.