March 29, 2024
BANGOR DAILY NEWS (BANGOR, MAINE

Businesswoman, benefactor Helen Libby dies at age 83

BANGOR — Helen Libby, a prominent businesswoman and benefactor, died Thursday night while driving her car in Bangor.

Libby, 83, turned onto Broadway shortly before 6 p.m. when her car suddenly turned into a snowbank, reported her son, Ed, who was driving behind her at the time.

A Bangor Fire Department ambulance crew had to break a window to get to Libby, reported Bangor police Officer Allen Hayden. The ambulance took her to St. Joseph Hospital where she was pronounced dead, according to the police report.

Libby and her husband, Carl Libby, operated Libby’s Hallmark Shop, a card shop in Bangor, for 37 years. They were also well known for their civic involvement and their support of philanthropic events. In 1990, the Libbys were awarded the Norbert X. Dowd Award for community service from the Greater Bangor Chamber of Commerce. Several years ago they received the Mother Angela Award for outstanding volunteer service from St. Joseph Hospital.

Her husband died in 1996 after suffering a heart attack in his 1983 Chevrolet Blazer.

Both were honorary chairmen of a capital campaign fund for improvements at St. Joseph Hospital, where both had served in the hospital’s auxiliaries.

“My heart and soul is in the hospital,” Helen Libby told the Bangor Daily News during the campaign in 1993.


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