Helen was born on June 11, 1920 and was raised in Lexington, and is a lifelong member of Second Presbyterian Church. Her father, Levi, was a professor and Associate Dean at the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture from 1918 to 1965.
She is a graduate of University High and the University of Kentucky College of Home Economics. While at UK she served as president of the Association of Women Students and of Kappa Delta Sorority.
Upon graduation she taught at Versailles (KY) High School for one year before joining the Women’s Army Corp in 1942. She was assigned to the Office of the Quartermaster General, attained the rank of Captain, and served stateside and in Europe until the end of World War II.
After the war she worked in the US Veterans Administration.
She married Joseph C. Evans in 1948. They raised 2 children and served 3 schools as PTA presidents.
Helen has served as President of the Lexington Woman’s Club and of the Woman’s Club of Central Kentucky.
During her term as President of the Kentucky Federation of Women’s Clubs she initiated the Kentucky First Ladies in Miniature collection which has been on display for 50 years in the Capitol rotunda in Frankfort.
Following the death of her husband in 1971, she joined Kentucky Educational Television and assisted in the formation of the Friends of KET organization.
She also worked with the Commonwealth of Kentucky serving as the director of the Lt. Governor’s mansion and as administrator of the Vest-Lindsey House in Frankfort.
She represented Kentucky in the creation of the Women in Military Service Memorial located at the entrance to Arlington National Cemetery in Washington D.C. and is a member of both the Kentucky Veterans Hall of Fame and the US Army Quartermaster Hall of Fame.
She has been active with the Daughters of the American Revolution at the local, state and national levels.
She is a University of Kentucky Fellow.
Helen embraces Life. She is interested in people and events. She loves travel and her adventures have taken her across the United States and around the world.
Helen is blessed with a son, a daughter, four grandchildren and a great grandchild.