Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher
This memorial website was created to remember our dearest Mary Helen Cleary who was born in Malden MA on June 17, 1929 and passed away on December 19, 2010 in Huntington Beach, CA. She was one of six children born to Robert and Eleanor Wilson, sister to Patricia, Robert, Barbara, Jay and Mark. She is survived by four children, Judith, Jacqueline, Susan and Steven, five grandchildren, Rachel, Rebecca, Steven, Shaun and Drew, and six great-grandchildren, Christian, Nathan, Madison, Katelin, Hannah and Savannah.
Mary Helen was a woman of adventure and creativity. She soloed in an airplane, got her motorcycle license, was a certified grapho-analyst and talented crafter. She and her late husband, Andrew Merle Cleary, were active in community theater in Florida at the Surfside Playhouse and in California at the Cypress Civic Theater.