Mary Helen Mitchell, 89, died March 16, 2023, at North River Health Campus in Evansville, Indiana. She was born on June 16, 1933, in Marion, Kentucky, the daughter of John Hester Gass and Edna (Morgan) Gass and younger sister of Charles Gass. She met and married (only a month later) the one and only love of her life, George Noble Mitchell, at age 40, on March 28, 1974. Mary Helen's life was devoted to caring for those who were closest to her, whether by blood or through marriage. In many ways, her life could be divided into 2 main parts: before marriage and after. She was born and raised until age 10 in Marion, Kentucky, surrounded by her beloved family and several special aunts who were especially close to her after her Mother became a widow when Mary Helen was a very young toddler. This is when she acquired the Gass family nickname of "Francis" which no one could really trace beyond her older brother's antics. At age 10, during the height of WWII, her mother moved