Helen H. Lemmel

LEMMEL, Helen Howarth. b.Wardle, Manchester, England, 14 November 1863; d. Seattle, Washington State, 1 November 1961. Her family immigrated to the USA when Helen was nine, living at Madison and Milwaukee. She became a travelling evangelist, organising a women’s quartet that played and sang at (among other places) Lake Chautauqua (see Mary Artemisia Lathbury*). In 1904 she moved to Seattle, and became a member of Ballard Baptist Church while also continuing to travel widely as an evangelist. She wrote more than 400 hymns, of which 67 with tunes were published by The British National Sunday School Union in Glad Songs: For every one on every occasion (London, 1922). The hymn by which she is...