Helen Kutcher

Helen Hedash Kutcher, 82, of Chesapeake, VA, and formerly of Tamaqua, PA, passed away on Sunday,
November 27, 2011. The relatives and friends of Helen Kutcher are invited to attend her Memorial Mass at
St. Jerome’s Catholic Church in Tamaqua, PA on December 12, 2011 at 11:00 am. Burial will follow in SS
Cyril and Methodius Roman Catholic Church Cemetery in Nesquehoning, PA. Arrangements in Tamaqua,
Pennsylvania are being handled by E. Franklin Griffiths Funeral Home. The family will greet friends at the church from 10:00 A.M. until time of the
service.

Mrs. Kutcher was born on June 27, 1929 in Coaldale, PA, daughter of the late Adam and Mary Jurba Hedash.
She and her husband were owners of Kutcher’s TV and Appliances from 1963 until her retirement in 1994.
Helen devoted many hours to helping others while volunteering at Coaldale Hospital and while working in many
facets for Meals on Wheels. She enjoyed keeping the old traditions of cooking, crocheting, knitting, and quilting,
yet remained a life-long leaner and braved the new world of computers. She loved to travel and experience new
things. She was deeply devoted to her children and loved each of her grandchildren immensely.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Joseph, and her daughter, Kathleen Kutcher Haggerty, wife of Bruce
Haggerty of Elizabethtown, KY. She was also preceded in death by four brothers, Amos, Andy, Michael, and
John, and a sister, Mary. Helen is survived by her two daughters, Dr. Janet Andrejco, wife of Robert Andrejco,
of Chesapeake, VA and JoAnn Rodgers, wife of Charles Rodgers, of Tamaqua, PA, and her son, Joseph
Kutcher, Jr., husband of ReBecca Kutcher, of Mt. Pleasant, SC; seven grandchildren, Kimberly Lynn Haggerty
of Lexington, KY, Jessica Marie Haggerty of Elizabethtown, KY, Thomas Charles Rodgers of Hometown, PA,
Melissa Marie Rodgers Smith of Carlisle, PA, Trista Sue Kutcher, Suzanna Marie Kutcher, and Samantha Rose
Kutcher, all of Mt. Pleasant, SC; three great-grandchildren, and three sisters, Ann Griffiths, Eleanor Shears, and
Irene Melnick. She is also survived by a sister-in-law, Roseanne Davidson.

In lieu of flowers, a donation may be made to MUSC Hollings Cancer Center, c/o Dr. Steven Chin (Memo:
Pancreatic Cancer Research), P.O. Box 250955, Charleston, SC 29425 or Johns Hopkins University, c/o Ralph
H. Hruban, M.D. (Pancreatic Cancer Research), Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, 401 North Broadway,
Weinberg 2242, Baltimore, MC 21231-2410.

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