Helen Ann Squires Nolan, a Skaneateles resident from through the middle 1970s and again from 1992 through 2020, passed away in Colorado Springs, Colorado on March 25, 2023. She was 91.
Born in Manhattan in 1932, she split time growing up between New York City and rural Dutchess County. She graduated from St. Barnabas High School in the Bronx. A registered nurse, she received her training at Mt. Sinai in Manhattan.
Much of her nursing career was spent with Lawrence Hospital in Bronxville, N.Y., and Northern Westchester Hospital Center, in Mt. Kisco, N.Y. She later worked as a hospice home-caregiver. While living In Skaneateles, she raised and rode horses, restored antiques, skied cross-country, bicycled and hiked. She was an ardent and expert gardener, and contributed her time and skills to the Skaneateles Garden Club for many years.
She traveled widely, throughout the United States, the Middle East and Europe. She lived for periods of time in Vilnius, Lithuania and Cairo.
She was for 49 years married to William B. Nolan, who passed away in 2002. They had five children, Timothy, of Garrison, N.Y.; Margaret, of Colorado Springs; Christopher, of Longmeadow, MA.; Catherine, of Mateo, N.C.; and Brendan, of Jackson Hole, WY. She had nine grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held and burial take place at St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church in Millbrook, N.Y. In lieu of flowers, it was her wish that donations in her memory be made to the Skaneateles Garden Club.
