Helen Rydquest (center) congratulates Elmwood Business Association president, Apr. 1970
Helen Rydquest (1918 - January 18, 1977) was the Vice President of Moseley Metal Crafts Inc. of West Hartford, Connecticut, and the wife of Ernest H. Moseley, Jr. She was also a member of Memorial Baptist Church of Hartford, serving on its education board and as a Sunday school teacher many years.
Life and Death[]
Rydquest was born in 1918 in Hartford as the daughter of Clarence E. Rydquest and Nan Magnuson. After growing up in the area, she graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts in 1940. Following a year of graduate work at Mount Holyoke, she also served as zoology research assistant at the University of Rochester, New York. After her work there in the early 1940's, she married Private Ernest H. Moseley, Jr. of South Main Street in West Hartford. The ceremony took place on July 23, 1943 in the chapel in Camp Maxey in Texas.
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Rydquest (left) and her friend as seniors at Mount Holyoke College, Oct. 1939
The two moved into 49 Brightwood Lane in West Hartford, Connecticut to raise their family. She served as past secretary of the Elmwood Businessmen's Association, a division of the West Hartford Chamber of Commerce, and president of the Talcott Junior High School PTA. She was active for many years in Boy and Girl Scout groups. During her middle years, she was also a member of the faculty of the University of Connecticut. In 1948, she was an instructor in Genetics.
That same year, she began her term as Vice President of Moseley Metal Crafts Incorporated on New Park Avenue in West Hartford, Connecticut. She worked the job for 28 years.
On January 18, 1977, she died at the age of 58 at Hartford Hospital. She was survived by her son, daughter, mother, and her sister, as well as two grandchildren.
Children[]
- Ernest H. Moseley III
- Claire Moseley - m. Brad Young