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Note: 88c-g8Le7 Helen8 Leggett born November 2, 1899 in Pittsburgh, PA
died November 29, 1982 in Fall River, MA, buried Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, PA
married April 4, 1930 to William Joseph Corbett
born July 7, 1893 in Kingston, Ontario, Canada
died February 3, 1942 in Buffalo, NY, buried Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, PA
Children (Corbett) 1: 1 girl
i Dorothy, b May 18, 1937 in Buffalo, NY; m Jan 28, 1967 to Richard Wayne Wertz in Pittsburgh, PA. Mr. Wertz was b May 19, 1933 in Cleveland, OH. They had no children.
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Helen grew up in Pittsburgh's Homewood section, graduating from Sterrit School, Winchester (1918), Sweetbriar College (1920), and Pennsylvania College for Women (now Chatham College) in 1924 with certificates in teaching and social work.
She toured the Panama Canal Zone in 1927 and Europe in 1928 with her mother Kate B.
On April 4, 1930, in Calvary Episcopal Church, Pittsburgh, she married William Joseph Corbett, son of William S. Corbett and Louise Marie Dietly of Kingston, Ontario. After 1934, they made their home in Buffalo, New York. He had moved the family from Pittsburgh to Buffalo, after he lost his position in the former place. A metallurgical engineering graduate of Carnegie Tech (Pittsburgh; now Carnegie Mellon University), at the time of his sudden death in 1942 he was Vice President of Atlas Steel Castings Co., Buffalo. During the 1930s, John M. Leggett remembers going boating with him on the Niagara River, where he kept a motor boat. We have photographs of this.
Helen remained in Buffalo, raising her only child, Dorothy, who had been born in 1937, and seeing her off to Buffalo Seminary, then Radcliffe College. Helen volunteered her time with the Red Cross and as a VA hospital grey lady.
She returned to Pittsburgh in 1959 to care for her mother Kate, then in her mid 90s, at 314 North Homewood Avenue. When Kate died in 1960, Helen spent much of her time in volunteer work, especially in visiting the sick and shut-in. Residents of the Episcopal Church Home especially remember her ministry. After the sale and demolition of No. 314, her girlhood home, about 1972, she lived in the Arlington Apartments before going to live with her daughter at 2002 Main Road, Westport Point, Mass. She died of a heart attack in the hospital at Fall River, Mass, on 29 November 1982, donating her body to medical research. Her ashes were interred in Pittsburgh's Homewood Cemetery in the spring of 1983.
Family records of the Rev. John M. Leggett
Family records of Dorothy Corbett Wertz
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