Helen A. Bright

Helen A. Bright, age 93 of Escondido, went home to God on December 11, 2015.

Helen was born in Pittsburgh, Penn. on May 15, 1922 to Clyde and Mary Amon. She graduated from Bellevue High School in 1940. She attended University of Pittsburgh for two years before joining the USMC.

It was during the war that she met the love of her life at a USO dance. She married John S. Bright on June 1, 1945. They were married only 18 years before his untimely death. She resided in Fallbrook, Calif. until 2013, when failing health brought her to live with her daughter in Escondido.

Helen worked at UCSD for 25 y...