Helen passed away one day shy of her 101st birthday. She was born on October 15, 1910 and passed away on October 14, 2011. I could find no information for her online. She is one of two centenarians buried in Merrill I.O.O.F. Cemetery.
Some historical events that occurred on Helen's birth year of 1910:
Jan 10th - 1st international air meet in US held, in LA
Feb 8th - The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce
Feb 15th - The Boy Scouts of America founded
Feb 19th - Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon] is freed from her first periods of forced isolation and goes on to cause several further outbreaks of typhoid in the New York area
Feb 23rd - 1st radio contest held (Philadelphia)
Mar 1st - 118 die when three passenger trains buried at Steven's Pass in Cascade Range by the worst snow slide in US history
Mar 3rd - Rockefeller Foundation: John D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can be devoted full time to being a philanthropist
Mar 8th - Baroness Raymonde de Laroche of Paris becomes the 1st ever licensed female pilot
Apr 3rd - Highest mountain in North America, Alaska's Mt McKinley claimed to have been 1st climbed by 4 local men
Apr 14th - President Taft begins tradition of throwing out ball on opening day
May 11th - Montana's Glacier National Park forms
Jun 2nd - Pygmies discovered in Dutch New Guinea
Jun 19th - Father's Day celebrated for 1st time (Spokane, Wash)
Jun 22nd - 1st airship with passengers sets afloat-Zeppelin Deutscheland
Jun 25th - Mann Act passed (no women across state lines for immoral purposes)
Jul 9th - Walter Brookins becomes 1st to pilot an airplane to 1 mile altitude
Aug 8th - The US Army installs the first tricycle landing gear on the Army's Wright Flyer
Aug 9th - Alva Fisher patents electric washing machine
Aug 25th - Yellow Cab is founded
Sep 11th - 1st commercially successful electric bus line opens (Hollywood)
Sep 12th - United States' 1st female cop (on record), Alice Stebbins Wells, appointed (LAPD)
Sep 27th - 1st test flight of a twin-engined airplane (France)
Oct 2nd - 1st 2 aircraft collision (Milan Italy)
Oct 23rd - Blanche Scott became first woman solo a public airplane flight
Nov 7th - The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse
Nov 12th - 1st Movie stunt: man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon
Nov 14th - 1st airplane flight from deck of a ship, Norfolk, Va
Nov 27th - NY's Penn Station opens as world's largest railway terminal
Nov 29th - The first US patent for inventing the traffic lights system is issued to Ernest Sirrine
Dec 3rd - Neon lights first publicly displayed (Paris Auto Show)
Dec 19th - 1st US city ordinance requiring white & black residential areas (Balt)
Dec 22nd - US postal savings stamps 1st issued
Dec 31st - US tobacco industry produced 9 billion cigarettes in 1910