activities. One of her greatest joys was being around and helping her family. She was family first, last and always. Helen was preceded in death by her beloved husband Bernard, her parents, and her six brothers and one sister. Left to cherish her memory are her three children, Jerry (Donna) of Mead, Nebraska, Carolyn, of Lincoln Nebraska and Keith (Cheryl) of Lincoln, Nebraska; five grandsons, Phillip and significant other Kailey, Ryan and fiancé Barbie, Brett, Brian and wife Chariese, and Chris and significant other Brittnie; and seven great grandchildren, Alexis, Delanee, Ryan, Rowan, Camden, Jackson and Mattix. She will also be missed by many relatives and friends in Iowa and Nebraska. Funeral services will be held at Schuchert-Lentz Funeral Home in Spirit Lake, Iowa on Monday, January 19,2015 at 2 pm with public viewing from noon until time of services on Monday. Burial will be in Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Spirit Lake. Military rites will be handled by the Spirit Lake American Legion and V.F.W. A memorial service will also be held on Thursday, January 22, 2015, at 7:00 P.M. at the Evangelical Covenant Church in Ceresco, Nebraska, for Helens friends in Nebraska.