Helen Marie Clines

Helen Marie Clines, 83 of Rotonda West, Florida passed away Friday morning, April 18, 2008 in Sarasota, Florida. Helen was born February 8, 1925 in Coventry Twp, Ohio the daughter of the late Herbert and Mary Miller. Helen and her family moved to Florida in 1971 from Ohio. She worked for Firestone Tire and Rubber, Co. in Akron, Ohio as a key punch operator for a number of years. She also worked as a home healthcare giver (council on aging) for ten years and a most of all was a loving mother, wife and grandmother. She worked as “Rosie the Riveter” during WWII while the men were off to war. She was a member of St. Raphael’s Catholic Church in Englewood. Helen leaves behind son Richard and fianc� Dianne of North Port, Florida; daughter, Sharon Clines Meier of both Osprey, Florida and North Carolina; brothers, Herb Miller and wife Dorothy of New Mexico and Richard Miller and wife Marion of Barberton, Ohio; sister, Mary Ellen Williams of Akron, OH and three grandchildren, Kale, Brookney and Joshua.