Short Name: | Helen Howarth Lemmel |
Full Name: | Lemmel, Helen Howarth |
Birth Year: | 1864 |
Death Year: | 1961 |
Born: November 14, 1863, Wardle, England.
Died: November 1, 1961, at her home in Seattle, Washington.
Buried: Lemmel was cremated, but her final resting place is unknown to us.
Daughter of a Methodist minister, Helen emigrated from England with her family to America when she was 12 years old. They first settled in Mississippi, then relocated to Wisconsin. She moved to Seattle in 1904, and for three years was music critic for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. While interviewing German singer Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Helen was persuaded to go to Europe. A gifted singer, she studied music in Germany for four years. Upon her return to America, she began giving concerts and traveling on the Chautauqua circuit. Eventually, she became a vocal music teacher at the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, Illinois. After retirement, she moved to Seattle, Washington, where she was a member of the Ballard Baptist Church. Among her works are a hymnal used by evangelist Billy Sunday for over a decade. Lemmel and a women’s choral group she directed were part of Sunday’s group at the peak of his career.
Sources:
Hustad, pp. 272-73
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, November 3, 1961
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Tunes by Helen Howarth Lemmel (21)![]() | As | Instances | Incipit |
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[Be ye doers of the word] (Lemmel) | Helen Howarth Lemmel (Composer) | 2 | 53176 65543 13243 |
[Birthday child, birthday child] | Helen Howarth Lemmel (Composer) | 2 | 35535 56533 22343 |
[Blessed are they] (Lemmel) | Helen Howarth Lemmel (Composer) | 2 | 31231 11171 23217 |
[Butterfly, with shining golden wing] | Helen Howarth Lemmel (Composer) | 2 | 35554 53223 55545 |
[Father in heaven, we thank Thee for Jesus] | Helen Howarth Lemmel (Composer) | 2 | 34532 12123 56765 |
[Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy] (Lemmel) | H. H. Lemmel (Composer) | 2 | 33544 33223 15671 |
[Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ] | Helen Howarth Lemmel (Composer) | 2 | 51176 55465 43332 |
[I do not know how Adam's sin] | Helen Howarth Lemmel (Composer) | 6 | 55335 57766 52235 |
[Knocking, knocking, the Savior stands] | Helen Howarth Lemmel (Composer) | 2 | 33323 56531 11712 |
LEMMEL (Lemmel) | Helen H. Lemmel (Composer) | 59 | 33235 43326 17132 |
LEMMEL (Chorus) | Helen H. Lemmel (Composer) | 19 | 33532 11144 46432 |
[Long ago the little children] | H. H. Lemmel (Composer) | 6 | 12354 33223 46543 |
[N-O is just a little word] | H. H. Lemmel (Composer) | 2 | 33543 23123 56356 |
[Starlit fields, a flock of sheep] | Helen H. Lemmel (Composer) | 2 | 33432 55555 65477 |
[The fear of the Lord, that is wisdom] | Helen Howarth Lemmel (Composer) | 2 | 33543 13221 11165 |
["The prisoner of the Lord"] | Helen Howarth Lemmel (Composer) | 2 | |
['Tis wonderful to know that Jesus] | H. H. Lemmel (Composer) | 8 | 34567 12117 23457 |
[Watch ye, stand fast in the faith] (Lemmel) | Helen Howarth Lemmel (Composer) | 3 | 15434 45666 51721 |
[We are children of the King] (Lemmel) | Helen Howarth Lemmel (Composer) | 3 | 56115 11234 44473 |
[While shepherds watched their flocks one night] (Lemmel) | Helen Howarth Lemmel (Composer) | 4 | 12321 34543 45654 |
[Yesterday in sin's dark bondage I walked, but Jesus found me] | Helen Howarth Lemmel (Composer) | 2 |