Obit: Helfert, Joseph C. (1907 – 2001)

Contact: Linda Mertens
Email: mertens@wiclarkcountyhistory.org


Surnames: Helfert, Schaefer, Gass, Bartnik, Kugel, Schmidt


---Source - Helen Johnson’s Scrapbook


Joseph Carl Helfert (13 Sep 1907 – 3 Jan 2001)

Joseph C. Helfert, 93, Dorchester, died Jan. 3, 2001, at the Memorial Nursing Home in Medford where he had resided the past year.

Funeral services for Joseph will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 6, 2001, at St. Louis Catholic Church where he had been a lifelong member. Father James Schaefer will officiate and burial will be in the Dorchester Cemetery.

Visitation with family and friends will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 5, 2001, at the Maurina Funeral Home in Dorchester. There will be a parish rosary service at 7 p.m.

Joseph Carl Helfert was born Sept. 13, 1907, in the Town of Holton, the son of Anton and Pauline (Gass) Helfert. With the death of his father in 1928, Joe continued farming with his mother and helped raise his siblings. A single man, his love and dedication to family will always be remembered. He operated his own farm in the Town of Holton until he retired. Joe enjoyed the outdoors, logging and a woodsman, and hunting small game. He will be remembered for playing his accordion for many dances and family gatherings.

Joe will be sadly missed by his three sisters, Agnes Bartnik of Colby, Marie Kugel of Medford and Cecilia (Ted) Schmidt of Abbotsford; sister-in-law, Beatrice Helfert of Colby; and many nieces and nephews including great-nieces and great-nephews.

He was preceded in death by his father, Anton in 1928; his mother, Pauline in 1963; four brothers, Anthony in 1944, Paul in 1994, Nicholas in 1981, and TSgt. Carl Helfert who was killed in action while serving in the U.S. Army in North Africa.