Helen Elizabeth Lacy

Helen Elizabeth Lacy

Female 1908 - 1992  (84 years)


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  • Name Helen Elizabeth Lacy  [1, 2, 3
    Birth 13 Apr 1908  Richland, Oswego, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3
    Gender Female 
    Death 12 Sep 1992  Easton, Northampton, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I35322  Stewartsny
    Last Modified 2 Dec 2025 

    Father Frank Benjamin Lacy,   b. 31 Jan 1875, Richland, Oswego, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aug 1957, Richland, Oswego, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Mary Sheldon Hutchins,   b. 3 Oct 1876, Albion, Oswego, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Apr 1927, Richland, Oswego, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 50 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Marriage 23 Oct 1904 
    Family ID F12062  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family John Wansink, Jr.,   b. 24 Feb 1898   d. 6 Jan 1978 (Age 79 years) 
    Children 
     1. Dirk Wansink,   b. 17 Feb 1932   d. 11 Oct 2015 (Age 83 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     2. Janice Marie Wansink
     3. Elizabeth Anne Wansink
     4. Marilyn Joyce Wansink,   b. 18 Aug 1938   d. 22 Jan 1939 (Age 0 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    Family ID F15315  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 2 Dec 2025 

  • Notes 
    • Helen E. Lacy - April 13, 1908 - September 12, 1992. Daughter of Frank B. and Mary Sheldon Hutchins Lacy. Wife of John Wansink. Married December 17, 1930.

      Newspaper Obituary - Sunday, September 13, 1992 Watertown Daily Times - Watertown, New York - Helen E. Wansink, 84, Retired Farmer, Dies - Helen E. Wansink, 84, F. Lacey Road, former dairy farmer, died Saturday morning at Easton Hospital, Easton, Pennsylvania. She had been living with her daughter in Easton for the past several years. The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Foster-Hax Funeral Home with the Rev. Terry E. Plaugher officiating. Burial will be in South Richland Cemetery, Fernwood. Calling hours will be 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. Contributions may be made to Northern Oswego County Ambulance. Surviving are a son, Dirk, Pulaski; two daughters, Janice Beck, Easton, and Elizabeth Black, Dallas, Ore.; 10 grandchildren, six great-grandchildren and a sister, Anna Cancro, Tarrytown. She was born April 13, 1908, in Fernwood, a daughter of Frank and Mary Hutchinson Lacey. She graduated from Pulaski Academy High School in 1925 and from Pulaski teachers' training class in 1926. She taught in the Pulaski school district for two years. On December 17, 1930, she married John Wansink. The couple owned and operated a dairy farm on F. Lacey Road for 50 years. Mr. Wansink died January 6, 1978. Mrs. Wansink was a member of the Fernwood Baptist Church, South Richland Grange and Pulaski Order of the Eastern Star Chapter 159.

  • Sources 
    1. [S31] Ancestry.com, 1920 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), Year: 1920; Census Place: Richland, Oswego, New York; Roll: T625_1254; Page: 1B; Enumeration District: 185; Image: 321.

    2. [S150] Ancestry.com, 1940 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;), Year: 1940; Census Place: Richland, Oswego, New York; Roll: T627_2715; Page: 12A; Enumeration District: 38-70.

    3. [S346] Ancestry.com, 1930 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2002;), Year: 1930; Census Place: Richland, Oswego, New York; Roll: 1636; Page: 7B; Enumeration District: 0054; Image: 178.0; FHL microfilm: 2341370.