13 things about Ogden, Utah’s Helen Elmer

Helen Marie Bonnett Elmer was an American woman from Ogden, Weber County, Utah, United States. She is Lester Irwin Bonnett and Lillie Mae Morrill Bonnett‘s daughter.

Elmer and her husband Harvey Arnold Elmer Sr. were members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They have nine sons namely Harvey Elmer Jr., Harry Elmer, Richard Elmer, William Elmer, Walter Elmer, Oliver Elmer, Rodney Wayne Elmer, Garth Elmer and Daniel Elmer and seven daughters namely Helen Elmer, Glenda Elmer, Sally Elmer, Alice Elmer, Bridget Elmer, Elizabeth Elmer and Barbara Elmer.

Helen married Todd Kmiecik, Glenda married Stanley Brown, Sally married Monte Carroll, Alice married David Perry, Bridget married Merrill Darrell Fackrell Jr., Elizabeth married Richard Jensen and Barbara married Randy Pierce. On November 21, 2022, Bridget and Fackrell’s son Merrill Darrell Fackrell III assaulted a passenger on a JetBlue flight. 

In 1962, Helen’s brother Charles Oliver Bonnett married Violet Angie Booth. He was 10 years older than Helen.

Helen was 5 years younger than Harvey Sr. Here are 13 more things about her:

1. On December 20, 1946, she married Harvey Sr. in Ogden.
2. On November 5, 1966, her older brother Kenneth Ray Bonnett died in Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, USA at the age of 42.
3. On November 7, 1969, her younger sister Lilian Bonnett Tucket died in Monticello, Wayne County, Kentucky, USA at the age of 38.
4. On December 4, 1974, her father died in Ogden at the age of 70.
5. On April 24, 1975, her younger brother Leland Lee Bonnett died in Ogden at the age of 45.
6. On December 7, 1987, her older brother Irvin Glenn Bonnett died in Ogden at the age of 64.
7. On June 9, 1992, her older sister Dorothy Mae Bonnett King died in Layton, Davis County, Utah at the age of 65.
8. In 1993, her mother died in West Weber, Weber County at the age of 87.
9. On March 1, 2005, her husband Harvey Sr. died in West Weber at the age of 81 after a long battle with cancer and on October 10, 2005, her younger brother Clarence Paul Bonnett died in Boyd County, Kentucky at the age of 72.
10. On September 9, 2011, her younger brother Terry Leroy Bonnett died in Ogden at the age of 67.
11. On February 20, 2015, her 11th child Rodney died in Washington Terrace, Weber County at the age of 55.
12. On July 14, 2015, she turned 87.
13. On May 24, 2016, she died in Ogden.