Obit: Beilfuss, Helen #3 (1914 - 1960)

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Surnames: Beilfuss, Hendrickson, Rogstad, Beranek, Steinrod, Detinger, Hauge, Kirkpatrick

----Source: THORP COURIER (Thorp, Clark County, Wis.) 05/05/1960

Beilfuss, Helen #3 (16 JUN 1914 - 1 MAY 1960)

Mrs. Bruce C. Beilfuss, 45, wife of Circuit Judge Bruce Beilfuss, was found dead Sunday morning in her home in Neillsville.  Death was due to a bullet wound in the head which was ruled to be self-inflicted.  She had been in ill health for more than a year.

Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Calvary Lutheran Church with Rev. R.P. Huss of Black River Falls officiating.

The former Helen Hendrickson, Mrs. Beilfuss was born June 16, 1914 in Springfield, Wis.  She attended school in Black River Falls and was a graduate of the University of Wisconsin School of Nursing.  She was employed at the University Hospital in Madison and Columbia Hospital in Milwaukee before her marriage on May 30, 1941, to Judge Beilfuss in Madison.

Mrs. Beilfuss worked as a nurse in Hollywood, Calif. and Fort Pierce, Fla., while her husband served with the armed forces.  She had made her home in Neillsville since 1946.  She was a member of the Calvary Lutheran Church, Carmi Chapter 60 of the Order of the Eastern Star, and of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary.

She is survived by her husband; one son, mark, at home; five brothers, Dr. W.O. Hendrickson and Dr. A.O. Hendrickson, Wausau, Dr. H.S. Hendrickson, Sacramento, Calif., Gaylord, Burbank; three sisters, Mrs. Lydia Rogstad, La Crosse, Mrs. F.M. Beranek, la Crosse, Mrs. Clifford Steinrod, St. Charles, Mich.; her step-mother, Mrs. George Detinger, Black River Falls; two step-brothers, Milton Hauge of Black River Falls and Axel Hauge, with the armed forces in Germany; and step-sister, Mrs. Dale Kirkpatrick, Eugene, Oregon.