Senior citizens, as well as many others in Clermont County and throughout Ohio, lost an advocate Sunday, Aug. 16 with the death of Helen Lois Brown Dale. She was instrumental in getting funding for senior services through tax levies and was the founder of Clermont County Senior Services.
Dale, 91, a resident of Milford, was working as an administrator in Clermont County offices in 1967 when she had the idea to get senior services funded through a county-wide tax levy. Knowing that it would take an act of legislation from the Ohio general assembly, she did not quit working for her ideals. It took her 12 years to realize her goal.
She first obtained funding for transportation services for senior citizens and later helped to fund centers for senior services throughout the county at churches and VFW facilities in Milford, Bethel, Williamsburg and New Richmond.