Helen Arlene (Downing) Weyher was born on June 19, 1916 in Milan, Monroe County, Michigan. She was the daughter of of Joseph Emery and Iva (Spencer) Downing.

In 1941, she married Alfred Lavern Weyher and they had five children:

  1. Richard Allen "Dick" Weyher

  2. Lavern Curtis Weyher

  3. Ronald Lavern Weyher

  4. Sandra Arlene (Weyher) Eash

  5. Debra Jean (Weyher) Kimerer

Helen died on May 14, 2016 in Dundee, Michigan at the age of 99. She is buried at Ridgeway Cemetery in Ridgeway Township, Lenawee County, Michigan.