Helene Thomas Bennett

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Helene Thomas Bennett
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Helene Thomas Bennett (5 July 1901–27 April 1988) was a bacteriologist and businesswoman who worked in Arizona.[1] She opened the Yuma Clinical Laboratory in 1926, in Yuma, Arizona, which became the second largest medical laboratory in Arizona.[2] She was posthumously inducted into the Arizona Women's Hall of Fame in 2011.[1]


Biography[]

Helene Alberta Thomas was born near Raton, New Mexico and was the eldest of three children of John Bertie Thomas and Catherine Helen (Wendell) Thomas. [3]Her father was the engineer on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. When her father was killed in a railroad accident, her family moved to Kansas and later Jasper, Missouri.[3] She received a degree in chemistry from the University of Kansas in 1922, followed by a master's degree in bacteriology. In 1926 she came to Yuma and established the Thomas Laboratory. She also have a laboratory at El Centro, California. [3]

In 1926 she married attorney Ray Crawford Bennett with whom she had three children. She was widowed in 1944. [4]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Knaub, Mara. "Yuman inducted into Arizona Women's Hall of Fame". Yuma Sun. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
  2. ^ "Bennett, Helene Thomas". Health Sciences Library. University of Arizona. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
  3. ^ a b c "Helene Thomas Bennett (1901-1988)". Arizona Women's Hall of Fame. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
  4. ^ "Bennett, Helene Thomas". Board of Regents for the University of Arizona. Retrieved October 1, 2020.

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