Helene Thomas Bennett

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]

Helene Thomas Bennett
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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. 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. "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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