Helen R. Bailey age 89 of Stroudsburg, PA passed away peacefully in the presence of, and while receiving the loving care of her family.

Helen was born and raised in Clifton, NJ.  She was the second youngest of six children to Michael and Mary Rusyniak.  Helen was part of a group in our society that has become known as of late as “The Greatest Generation.”  People of the “The Greatest Generation” are people that grew up during the depravation of the Great Depression and later as young adults bore witness to the Second World War.

Like many young people her age, Helen left school during her teenage years to supplement income and help care for her immediate family.  As a young woman in the late 1940’s and while working as an assembly line worker, she took fancy to a young handsome coworker named Frank Bailey.  They dated for a couple of years and as fate would have it they fell in love and were married on May 7, 1949 at the Assumption of the Holy Virgin Mary Orthodox Church of Clifton.  After getting married they settled in Garfield where they lived for about two years.  Then in 1952, Frank and Helen moved to Wayne.  Wayne is where they would spend the next forty years and would raise their son Ernest and their daughter Donna.

For the first seven years after the birth of their first child, Helen was a homemaker.  During this time she took a variety of classes including typing and clerical classes.  She put the classes to good use and earned a position at South Paterson Trucking where she worked the second shift at night for more than five years.  Subsequent to her employment at South Paterson Trucking, Helen was offered a job at Union Camp where she worked in the Traffic Department.  There she handled all loss and damaged claims with the railroads and trucking industry.  She held this position for twenty and a half years until her retirement in 1991.  Following her retirement, Frank and Helen moved from Wayne to a retirement village in Buckingham, PA.

Throughout her life, Helen was extremely devoted to her faith and he family.  Helen and Frank were very active members of Saint Philip Orthodox Church in Souderton, PA.  They also attended mass at Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church in Wayne.  In 2015 Helen moved closer to her daughter Donna in Stroudsburg, PA.  Helen then became a member of the Holy Trinity Orthodox Church in Stroudsburg.  When Helen’s health diminished, she moved to Grace Park Assisted Living Facility in Stroudsburg.  There she was offered outstanding care until Jesus took her home on September 18, 2018.  Helen and Frank cherished years of loving and loyal marriage until Frank’s passing in 2005.  Helen loved to cook and bake.  Her family remembers her making a variety of delicious breads and Christmas cookies among man other things.  Helen always played by the rules, especially the “Golden Rule.”  She was always very proper and conservative.  Although she was strict with her children, she was always there for them whenever they needed her.  Helen’s greatest passion was for her family.  Nothing in the world meant more to Helen then providing for and spending time with her family.  She touched the lives of many people and will be sincerely missed by everyone that knew her.

Helen is survived by her son Ernest Bailey and his wife Rosemary of Stockholm, NJ and her daughter Donna Burger and her husband Charles of Stroudsburg, PA, one sister, Martha Kowalczyk of Clifton, five grandchildren; Dana Valerio and her husband Woody, Jordon and his wife Jami, Cassie Burger, Emily Burger and her husband Nick Adams, and Matthew Burger, one great grandchild Xavier, and numerous nieces and nephews.  She was predeceased by her husband` Frank in 2005 and her sisters Florence Olko, Anna Schermock, Mildred Lacorte, and her brother John Rusyniak.