Obituaries

Helen Elizabeth Long Griffith

This document was published online on Monday, January 09, 2006

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Helen Elizabeth Long Griffith, 74, died Nov. 4, 2003, at Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital in Thermopolis after a brief illness.

She was born Feb. 27, 1929, in Canwood, Saskatchewan, Canada, to Edwin and Bertha Berg Johnson. She and her sister Elvera attended school in Canwood. When she was 12, she and her sister went to live with their Aunt Annie in Sioux City, Iowa, where Mrs. Griffith graduated from high school. She moved to Casper and attended the community college.

In 1952 she married Norwood Long. They lived in Midwest and in 1962 moved to Meeteetse. She was a homemaker and stay-at-home mom to her four children.

She married Arval Griffith in 1973. The couple lived in many locations until settling in Greybull. In 1983 she moved to Thermopolis with her daughter Vivian. She later moved to the Wyoming Pioneer Home. She lived there almost 10 years until going to the Wyoming Retirement Center in Basin. She then returned to Thermopolis, living at Canyon Hills Manor, where she resided until her death.

She was a member of the Eagles Auxiliary and was a devout Lutheran. She loved her children, reading the Bible, sewing, crocheting, and playing pinochle and bingo.

She is survived by her son Steven (Arvis) Long of Carriere, Miss., daughters Teressa Diggs of Cheyenne, Vivian (Robert) Butchart of Thermopolis and Kristine (Allen) Hogg of Meeteetse, niece Twila Bastian, nephew Vernon Cherrett, 12 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her aunt who raised her, sister Elvera Cherrett, one son and one grandson.

Funeral services were Friday at Meeteetse Community Church with Rev. Debra Higgins and Pastor Kenneth Evans officiating. Burial followed in Meeteetse Cemetery.

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