Wellemeyer, Helen Clarice

Female 1912 - 1931  (19 years)


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  • Name Wellemeyer, Helen Clarice 
    Born 11 Feb 1912  Colesburg, Delaware County, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3
    Gender Female 
    Died 29 Mar 1931  Colesburg, Delaware County, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 5
    • The following is a transcription supplied by Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts of an obituary for Helen Clarice Wellemeyer which she reported had appeared on Tuesday, 31 March 1931 in the Manchester Democrat, of Manchester, Iowa.

      "Manchester friends of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Wellemeyer of Colesburg learn with profound sorrow of the sudden death, on Sunday morning, at the home of her parents, of their daughter, Helen, a young woman nineteen years of age and who had been teaching the school at Almoral for some time. Miss Wellemeyer succumbed to an attack of influenza succeeding a nervous breakdown, and her death renders the home desolate. Funeral services are to be held tomorrow (Wednesday) afternoon at two o'clock from the Methodist church in Colesburg, and burial will be made in the cemetery there. Miss Wellemeyer was born on the farm near Colesburg, graduated from the High School of that village and attended the State Normal School at Cedar Falls. She is survived by her parents and one brother, Howard, who are heartbroken over this great sorrow. The family is so well known in Delaware County that sympathy for the sorrowing relatives will be general and heartfelt. Helen was a lovable, intelligent girl, a devoted daughter and an ambitious teacher. Her nature was happy, her disposition unselfish and her life gave promise of great usefulness. That she should have been taken at the very threshold of young womanhood, idolized by her parents and beloved by her friends, is a calamity too great for words. Manchester friends feel for Mr. and Mrs. Wellemeyer the largest measure of sincere sympathy."
    Buried Colesburg, Delaware County, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    • She was buried in Zion Cemetery.
    Person ID I5565  Fiegenbaum
    Last Modified 20 Jul 2008 

    Father Wellemeyer, Carl Wesley,   b. 12 May 1877, Sleepy Eye, Brown County, Minnesota, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Nov 1933, Colesburg, Delaware County, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 56 years) 
    Mother Merten, Sarah,   b. 13 May 1877, Colesburg, Delaware County, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 May 1966, Manchester, Delaware County, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 89 years) 
    Married 12 Jun 1907  Colesburg, Delaware County, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6, 7, 8
    Family ID F1797  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), p. 112.
      Helen Clarice Wellemeyer, child of Carl Wesley Wellemeyer and Sarah Merten, was born on 11 February 1912 at Colesburg, Delaware County, Iowa.

    2. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), p. 112.
      A transcription supplied by Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts of an obituary for Helen Clarice Wellemeyer which she reported had appeared on Tuesday, 31 March 1931 in the Manchester Democrat, of Manchester, Iowa.
           "Miss Wellemeyer was born on the farm near Colesburg...."

    3. [S48] Cemetery or burial marker, IA GenWeb Project. Delaware County, Iowa Cemetery Directory. Zion Cemetery.
      Gravestone transcriptions from Zion Cemetery at Colesburg, Section 6, Colony Township, Delaware County, Iowa provided by Robert Schwietert to the USGenWeb Tombstone Transcription Project for Iowa at (http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ia/delaware/cemeteries/zioncem.txt). File updated February 1999. Accessed 14 April 2006.
           Row 29: Helen Clarce Wellemeyer; born 11 February 912 [sic]; died 29 March 1930.

    4. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), p. 112.
      Helen Clarice Wellemeyer died on 29 Marrch 1931 at Colesburg, Delaware County, Iowa.

    5. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), p. 112.
      A transcription supplied by Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts of an obituary for Helen Clarice Wellemeyer which she reported had appeared on Tuesday, 31 March 1931 in the Manchester Democrat, of Manchester, Iowa.
           "Manchester friends of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Wellemeyer of Colesburg learn with profound sorrow of the sudden death, on Sunday morning, at the home of her parents, of their daughter, Helen, a young woman nineteen years of age and who had been teaching the school at Almoral for some time. Miss Wellemeyer succumbed to an attack of influenza succeeding a nervous breakdown, and her death renders the home desolate."

    6. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), p. 111.
      Carl Wesley Wellemeyer and Sarah Merten were married on 12 June 1907 at Colesburg, Delaware County, Iowa.

    7. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), pages 111-112.
      A transcription supplied by Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts of an obituary for Carl Wesley Wellemeyer which she reported had appeared on 29 November 1933 in an unidentified Garner, Iowa newspaper.
           "Departed was married 12 June 1907 to Sarah Merten. From this union came two children, one son Howard, who is working at home, and one daughter, Helen, who preceeded him in death."

    8. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), p. 112.
      A transcription supplied by Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts of an obituary for Sarah (Merten) Wellemeyer which she reported had appeared on Thursday, 9 June 1966 in the Manchester Press, of Manchester, Iowa.
           "She was married to Carl Wellemeyer of Garner 12 June 1907."