Obit: Winchell, Helen L. (1921 - 2001)

Contact: Linda Mertens
Email: mertens@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 


Surnames: Winchell, Ley, Berry, Bettenhausen, Smoje, Westcott, Vircks, Neibacher


----Source – Helen Johnson’s Scrapbook


Helen L. Winchell (27 Apr 1921 - 25 Jan 2001)

Helen L. Winchell, 79, Abbotsford, died Thursday, Jan. 25, 2001 at the Continental Manor Nursing Home, Abbotsford, where she had resided since Jan. 10.

Funeral services were held on Monday at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Curtiss. The Rev. Lauren Ley presided. Burial was in Our Saviour’s Lutheran Cemetery, town of Holway. Family members served as pallbearers.

Visitation was at Maurina Funeral Home, Abbotsford, on Sunday, and again on Monday at the church.

Mrs. Winchell was born April 27, 1921 in the town of Holway, the daughter of the late Charly and Clara (Nelson) Berry. She and Donavan Winchell were married Jan. 20, 1940 in Curtiss. They lived in Dorchester, later moving to Palos Hills, Ill., where Mrs. Winchell was employed as a nurses aid in a nursing home. She and Mr. Winchell later divorced. In the 1980’s, Mrs. Winchell retired to live in Abbotsford.

Mrs. Winchell enjoyed gardening and cooking. She was a member of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church and the Ladies Aid.

She is survived by three daughters, Myrla Bettenhausen, Lockport, Ill., Norma (Marin) Smoje, Curtiss, and Joyce Westcott, Logansport, Ind.; seven grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; one brother, Otto (Louise) Berry, Curtiss; and two sisters, Harriet Vircks, Abbotsford, and Lois (Floyd) Neibacher, Dorchester.

Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by two infant sons, and one brother, Clyde Berry.