HELEN M. HALLEY COUSTILLAC, 84 Was 1995 'Irish Woman of the Year'

BOARDMAN -- Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Fox Funeral Home and at 10:30 a.m. in St. Dominic Church for Helen M. Halley Coustillac, 84, of Chambrel Windsong Facility, 100 Brookmont Road, Akron, formerly of Southern Boulevard here, who died Monday at Chambrel Windsong.
Mrs. Coustillac was born May 12, 1916, in Braddock, Pa., a daughter of George B. and Helen Whitney Halley, and lived in this area for 62 years.
She attended St. Brendan School and was an honor graduate of Alexander M. Scott High School, both in Braddock, and also attended Robert Morris Business School in Pittsburgh. She was supervisor of the Medical Transcription Department at Southside Hospital in Youngstown.
She was a member of the church and its Altar and Rosary Society and Canfield Federated Democratic Women's Club and was historian for United Appeals. She also was a member of the American Association of Medical Transcriptionists, board member and treasurer for 16 years for the Youngstown Hospital Association South Unit Federal Credit Union, and a charter member of Catholic Daughters of America. She was also a den mother for Boy Scouts of America and worked with the Youngstown Literacy Program tutoring students who were interested in obtaining a high school diploma.
Mrs. Coustillac was a member of the Ursuline and Mooney high school PTOs, Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians and in 1995 was named "Irish Woman of the Year" in Youngstown.
Her husband, Regis H., whom she married Jan. 27, 1934, died in 1999.
She leaves a daughter, Eileen M. Coustillac Porter of Canfield; two sons, Regis G. of Medina and Richard H. of Akron; three sisters, Marian Halley Herman of Braddock, Jean Hally Hebrank of Greensburg, Pa., and Gladys Halley Safran of Export, Pa.; eight grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren.
A brother, John Halley, is deceased.
Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.
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