Helen Dropick

July 21, 2019

Helen (Csenge) Dropick, 100, loving wife of the late Michael F. Dropick, died July 21, 2019, at Msgr. Bojnowski Manor, New Britain. Born in Wallingford in 1918, daughter of the late Louis Csenge and Elizabeth Karhut Csenge, Helen graduated in 1939 as an RN from St. Francis Hospital School of Nursing, in Hartford, CT, and provided almost 40 years of joyful and dedicated nursing service there. She helped to develop the Maternity Rooming-In program at St. Francis Hospital and loved caring for her patients. She was a devoted Catholic and parishioner of St. Joseph Cathedral, Hartford, St. Thomas the Apostle, West Hartford, Holy Trinity Church, Wallingford, Good Shepherd Parish, Martha’s Vineyard, and a communicant at St. Lucian’s Residence, New Britain. She is survived by her sons, Michael P. Dropick, and daughter-in-law, Carol G. Dropick, of Avon, John J. Dropick, and daughter-in-law, Dorothy K. Dropick, of Edgartown, MA, and her daughter, Anne M. Dropick, of New Haven; grandchildren, Christopher and his wife, Beth, Peter, John and his wife, Melissa, Katharine and James; great-grandchildren, Jaiden, Jackson, Bobbie and Bella; and several nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her infant granddaughter, Sheila Dropick, and her sisters, Margaret Csenge, Julia Boda, and Elizabeth Simmons, and brothers, Louis Csenge, Jr., and Paul Csenge. Her family will receive relatives and friends at Molloy Funeral Home, 906 Farmington Ave., West Hartford, CT, on Monday, July 29, from 9-9:45 a. m., followed by a Mass of Christian burial at 10 a. m. at St. Peter Claver Church, 47 Pleasant St., West Hartford. Interment will be at Fairview Cemetery in West Hartford. In lieu of flowers, gifts in Helen’s memory may be sent to St. Francis Foundation, 95 Woodland St., Hartford, CT 06105, Attn: Lynn; or to the Sisters of St. Joseph of Chambery, 27 Park Rd., West Hartford, CT 06119.