Helen Price Spackman Wilson of Tyrone, PA passed on January 16, 2026. She was born on May 28, 1930, in Pittsburgh PA on the eve of the Great Depression that gripped America. She was the daughter of Wheeler and Ruth Spackman and known affectionately as Honey to all her friends. She had two siblings, sister Marianne McClure and brother Sandy Spackman.

Her earliest memories are of her family being lucky to have a place to live, all in one room in an uncle's house in Pittsburgh. After years of her father looking for work around the country, one of her happiest childhood memories was for the family to receive train tickets in the mail from her father in 1936 so her family could move to Yonkers New York, where her father had found them their own place to live and a job in nearby New York City.

Graduating from Yonkers High School, she then went to LaSalle Junior College, graduating in 1951. She started her career at Arnold Constable, a large New York department store chain, where she rapidly was promoted from stock person to buyer, to floor manager and then personnel director.

Her brother Sandy introduced her to his prep school roommate, George C. Wilson III, known as GC. They married in 1952 and off she went to Tyrone, Pennsylvania for the rest of her life. Here she formed deep and lasting friendships that lasted more than sixty years. They had four children, George IV, Chris, Mark and Wendy. She was greatly loved by her children's spouses, Judy Wilson, Wanda Wilson and Jim Miller.

Following the death of her husband GC in 1986, Honey began the next part of her life's journey by going to work as a paraprofessional in the Tyrone School system. She helped to develop curriculum and teach reading skills to thousands of children over the next twenty years until a stroke forced her to retire at the age of 78.

After her stroke, she initially could neither walk, speak nor read. Never complaining, with fierce determination and grace, she willed and worked her way back to health. She continued to live a fully independent life until she died.

She was also blessed to have three grandchildren. Michele Miller, Jonathan Wilson and James Wilson, and six great-grandchildren, Christopher Robert Jr., Brodie James, Ace Anderson & Dean Edward Thomas Calnan; and Emmett Verrazano and Rhys Russell Wilson. She also had a special relationship with Caleb Hammond, who called her Nana Honey. What joy she brought to their lives, always on the floor playing all sorts of games with her grandchildren and great grandchildren.

Honey was always a giver, active in many charitable areas to help Tyrone continue to be a great place to live and raise a family. Her positions included leading the Young Women's Club of Tyrone, YMCA board member, Main Street board member, and a volunteer for Meals on Wheels for many years. The Trinity Episcopal church was a central part of her life where she served as a Sunday School Teacher, head of the Church Women's Auxiliary as well as a member vestry for many years.

She was the spouse and mom that everyone wishes was theirs, always looking for the best in people and in life, always with positive energy. She was the glue that made her husband's many business ventures hum. She had a never-ending wonderment in the beauty of the world we live in. An amazing wife, mother, friend, grandmother and great-grandmother, the most important thing in her life was her family. She will always be greatly missed.

Services will be private. In her memory, gifts can be made to the Trinity Episcopal Church in Tyrone PA.