Obituary of Helena Gyfran Yancy
HELENA GYFRAN YANCY DEATH ANNOUNCEMENT FOR TLC AFRICA
When family chains are broken, nothing is the same but as God takes us one by one, He links the chain
again.
The Gyfran, Natt and Yancy families are deeply saddened to inform you that Helena Gyfran Yancy,
our beloved Mother, Grand/Great Grand mother, Sister, Aunt, and Cousin, passed away on Sunday,
30July2023, at home, in Troy New York, surrounded by her children.
She is preceded in death by her father, Chief Y. Gyfran, her mother, Mary Natt Gyfran & her husband,
Hon Magnus J. Yancy.
She leaves to mourn, her family that will always remember her today, tomorrow, and forever.
Her children Dustin Mooney (Joyce), Nadia Assaf Cole, Nazira Assaf Dendy, her nieces Elizabeth Gyfran
Gharzzidine and Beatrice Gyfran Babayeju whom she raised as her own, twenty-one grandchildren,
thirty great grandchildren, her only surviving sister, Susanna Gyfran Saint-Pe, nieces, nephews, cousins
and a host other relatives and friends.
BURIAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD AS FOLLOWS:
WAKE KEEPING:
FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 2023, 6:00PM TO 8:00PM:
John J. Sanvidge Funeral Home, Inc.
565 Fourth Avenue
Troy, New York 12182
SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 2023
VIEWING & FUNERAL SERVICE: 9:00AM
First Unitarian Church
405 Washington Avenue
Albany, NY12206
INTERMENT:
Oakwood Cemetery
186 Oakwood Avenue
Troy, New York 12182
CONTACTS:
Joyce Mooney 516 543-9273
Letia Assaf Bates 336-770-9805
Nadia Assaf-Cole 770-778-1635
Marilyn Cason 336-338-5200
HOTELS:
Holiday Inn Express & Suites
16 Wolf Road
Albany, New York 12205
518-459-3600
Hampton Inn Albany
1442 Western Avenue
Albany, New York
518-438-0001
Comfort Inn
981 New London Road Route 9
Latham, New York
518-589-9879