Helen Stambaugh, philanthropist and YSU supporter, dies

YOUNGSTOWN — When the 2011-2012 Youngstown State University football season begins this fall, there will be one conspicuously empty seat.

The only reserved seat in the president’s loge at Stambaugh Stadium will be left vacant after the Monday afternoon death of Helen R. Stambaugh, 92, its longtime occupant.

“I think that’s when it will really hit me that Mrs. Stambaugh is gone, when I see that seat empty,” said Paul McFadden, YSU’s chief development officer.

Calling hours are from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday at Anstrom-Velker Funeral Home and from 9 to 10 a.m. at St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church on Mahoning Avenue.

YSU’s stadium was named for Stambaugh’s late husband, Arnold D. Stambaugh, a philanthropist and businessman in hardwood lumber manufacturing.

McFadden said Mrs. Stambaugh carried on her husband’s philanthropic ways.

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