Died 1988 | ||
Awards Arizona Women's Hall of Fame | ||
Helene Thomas Bennett (1901–1988) was a bacteriologist and businesswoman who worked in Arizona. She opened the Yuma Clinical Laboratory in 1926, in Yuma, Arizona, which became the second largest lab of its type in Arizona.
Life
Helene was born July 5, 1901, near Raton, New Mexico and was the eldest of three children. When her father John was killed in a railroad accident, her family moved to Kansas and later Jasper, Missouri. She received a degree in chemistry from the University of Kansas in 1922, followed by a master's degree in bacteriology.
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