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Helmold, Leona
Leona Helmold, 99, of Lowden, died Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010, in Cedar Manor Nursing Home, Tipton, where she had been a resident since 2001. Services: 2 p.m. Tuesday, Zion United Church of Christ, Lowden, with the Reb. Barbara Muhs officiating. Burial: Lowden Cemetery. Friends may call from noon until service time Tuesday at the church. Chapman Funeral Home, Clarence, is handling arrangements.
Survivors include her daughters, Joanne (Wendell) Beckley of Tipton, and Shirley (Robert) McMillin of Kansas City, Mo.; four grandchildren, four stepgrandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; and 15 great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband and a stepgranddaughter.
Leona was born March 21, 1910, in Lowden, Iowa to Henry and Augusta Becker Boedeker. She married Walter Helmold on Feb. 11, 1932 at Lowden. He died Feb. 11, 1981.
Leona was a 1928 graduate of Lowden High School, she was a member of Zion United Church of Christ, where she had been church organist for many years. She loved quilting and made a quilt for each of her granddaughters.
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