The Niemuth
Family -- Generation 8
-- Bernice
L. (Helzer) Hellwege's obituary --
- ST. PAUL -- Bernice L. Hellwege,
75, of St. Paul died Friday, Feb. 4, 2000, at the Heritage Living
Center in
- St. Paul.
- Services will be at 10 A.M. Tuesday
at the Zion Lutheran Church cemetery in Worms. Memorial
- services will follow at 11 A.M.
at Christ Lutheran Church in St. Paul. The Rev. Robert Paulson
will officiate. Mrs. Hellwege was cremated. Jacobsen Funeral
Home is in charge of arrangements.
- There will be no visitation, although
the family will receive friends from 5 to 8 P.M. Monday at Christ
- Lutheran Church.
- Memorials are suggested to the Christ
Lutheran Church annex fund or to St. Francis hospice.
- Mrs. Hellwege was born May 4, 1924,
at Worms to John and Erna (Niemoth) Helzer. She was raised in
- Worms and graduated from Grand Island
Senior High School in 1943.
- She married Dale Hellwege on Dec.
21, 1947, in Worms. They farmed near St. Libory. Mr. Hellwege
- died on May 10, 1972. Mrs. Hellwege
moved to St. Paul, where she lived for the remainder of her life.
She worked various jobs, predominately as a caregiver, until
1995.
- She was a member of Christ Lutheran
Church, Ladies Aid and the Jolly Wives Card Club.
- Survivors include three sons, Craig
of Lincoln, Randy of Grand Island and Patrick of Lincoln; a daughter,
- Nancy (Mrs. John) Forbes of Palmer;
eight grandchildren; and two sisters, Vi Helzer of Los Angeles,
Calif. and Shirley Helzer of San Francisco, Calif.
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- [Source: Grand Island Daily Independent,
Sunday, February 6, 2000]
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