Helen Duda (nee Madzik), a longtime Yonkers resident, died on Tuesday March 20, 2018 at St. John’s Riverside Hospital. She was 96 years old. She was born on February 28, 1922 to Cornelius and Anna Hnatowitch Madzik in Galitcia, Poland to the Russian Orthodox faith. She was raised and educated in Poland. She came to the United States in 1937. She worked at Ciba Geigy Corporation until the age of 69. She married her loving husband Walter Duda in 1940. She was widowed at 51 years old when her husband died in 1973. She is survived by two children, Walter Duda and Richard John Duda and blessed with five grandchildren and five great grandchildren. She was predeceased by a daughter, Rose Ann Duda. Visiting hours will be at Whalen & Ball Funeral Home on Friday from 4-8pm. Funeral Service will be held in Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church on Saturday March 24 at 10am. Interment will be private.