Helen Stolica

Helen graduated from Saint George High School in 1942. She then found work with the telephone company and moved to Portland, Oregon. There she met her husband, Michael A. Stolica, and they were married on April 22 1955. They moved to Jacksonville, Florida and lived in San Marco until 1966 when they moved north and finally settled in Gambrills, Maryland where they raised their 2 children. Helen was an excellent homemaker and seamstress, often making clothes, canning vegetables from the garden, and cooking fabulous meals for her family. When her kids got older she returned to work as a nurse at a senior care facility. When her husband retired from the Government they moved back to Harleyville, South Carolina where they lived for 10 years until finally moving back to Jacksonville, Florida.

Helen grew up on a farm in South Carolina during the Great Depression. She told stories of not having electricity or plumbing until she was 17 years old. When her brothers and sisters left for the war the family had no one to drive the car into town. She called a state trooper who came out to the house and told her to back the car up 100 feet. She did and he wrote her a drivers license out on a piece of paper.

Helen also loved gardening and camping, and was always very active in the church, where she loved to sing in the choir; most recently at the Village Church in Saint Augustine. She once volunteered to go to Bosnia with a local church group to teach Bible Study to children orphaned by the war. She also loved to knit and was always closely involved in raising her children, taking her son to sports practices, Oriole baseball games, and fishing, and her daughter to modeling classes and beauty pageants.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Michael A Stolica; her daughter, Candy Stolica; her brothers, Greg Knight,John Knight and Shields Knight, and sisters, Mary Mcintosh, Sally Evans and Dorothy Knight. She is survived by her son, Marco Stolica; daughter-in-law, Tina Stolica; and her granddaughter, Brooke Stolica, from of St. Augustine. She is also survived by her nephews, Hugh Knight (Orangeburg S.C.), Lynn Knight (Bowman S.C.), John Mcintosh (Brookeville Md.), Roger Mcintosh (Wheaton Md.); and nieces, Arie Griffin (Mt. Pleasant S.C.), Rhonda McIntosh (Mathias W.V.). I would also like to thank the members of the Village Church in St. Augustine for all their help. My mom loved her time there.

A memorial service to celebrate her life will be held at Hardage-Giddens Oaklawn Chapel at 4801 San Jose Blvd. Jacksonville Florida 32207 on Saturday August 26, 2017 at 11:00am with Pastor Bob May, officiating. Visitation will held from 10:00am to 11:00am prior to the service.