Obit: Helms, Lobelia #1 (1915 - 1964)

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Surnames: Helms, Gotter

----Source: The Loyal Tribune (Loyal, Clark County, WI) 08 Oct 1964

Helms, Lobelia (10 Mar 1915-06 Oct 1964)

Mrs. Harlan Helms, 49, of Marshfield, died at 6:20 a.m. Tuesday morning at Memorial Hospital in Neillsville, where she had been a patient for one day. She had been in poor health for the past several years. She had been staying with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand Gotter for the past six months.

The body will lie in state at the Myre Funeral Home beginning Wednesday evening. Funeral services will be held at the Trinity Lutheran Church, Loyal on Friday at 2 p.m. Re. A. M. Moldenhauer, Loyal and Rev. Donald Gauerke, pastor of the Grace Lutheran Church of Nasonville will officiate.

Mrs. Harlan (Lobelia) Helms was born March 10. 1915 1t Granton. She received her education in the Thorp schools.

Mrs. Helms lived in Granton, Thorp and Stratford, before coming to Loyal in 1943. She worked as a bookkeeper in various places before her marriage on September 8, 1959 to Harlan Helms at Marshfield. Since then she has lived in and around Marshfield, and for the past six months during her illness, has lived with her parents in Loyal.

Mrs. Helms was a member of the Grace Lutheran Church of Nasonville.

Beside her husband she is survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand Gotter, Loyal; and one brother, Romaine Gotter of Milwaukee; and one niece and one nephew.