Wellemeyer, Helen Clarice

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Buried:
She was buried in Zion Cemetery.

Died:
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."