Charles G. Helming 1864-1930

HELMING, BAHR, SILWOLD, WOLTER, SILL, WINTER, WACKERBARTH, KORTEMEYER, NICHOLS, SCOTT, LEIWEN, STANTON, ZARUB, COOK, VONDEROHE, GAUNITZ

Posted By: Ann Krumme (email)
Date: 10/3/2008 at 21:13:43

DEATH OF LIFE LONG RESIDENT.

After a long period of poor health, dating from an automobile accident that occurred to him six or eight years ago, Charles G. Helming died last Thursday evening on his farm in Ludlow township a few miles southwest of Waukon, occupied by his son-in-law, Albert G. Bahr.

The diseased (sic deceased) was the son of Frederick Helming, pioneer of Ludlow township, and was born Jan. 27, 1864, on a farm joining the one on which he passed away. At Newton, Iowa, in 1891, he married Charlotte Silwold and they resided on the farm in Ludlow township. She died in 1905, leaving two sons, Harry and Carl, and a daughter, Margaret. In 1905 he was married to Mrs. L. Wolter at Independence, Ia., who survives him, as do the sons and daughter of the first wife. He is also survived by a sister, Mrs. Minnie Sill of South Dakota, and a brother, Otto A. Helming of this city.

Mr. Helming remained on the farm until about 1915, becoming one of the county’s most extensive and successful breeders of Aberdeen Angus cattle, Percheron horses and Chester
White hogs.

When he retired from the farm he took up his residence in Waukon. He served as Secretary and Treasurer of the German Farmers’ Insurance Company and was a stockholder and Director of the People National Bank.

Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at Zion Reformed church, conducted by the Evangelical Lutheran pastor of Postville, and burial took place at Oakland Cemetery.

Out of town persons in attendance at the funeral included the Misses Margaret, Edith and Lena Winter, sisters of Mrs. Helming; Mrs. Anna Winter, Mrs. Jacob Wackerbarth, Ervin Wackerbarth and Mrs. Henry Kortemeyer, all of Independence, Ia.; Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Nichols, Robert Scott and Theodore Leiwen, Humboldt, Ia.; Truman Stanton, former County Agent, Center Junction, Ia.; Mrs. Lincoln Zarub and daughter, Elaine and Mrs. Cecil Cook, Cedar Rapids; Henry Vonderohe, Sr., Mr. and Mrs. Henry Vonderohe, Jr., of New Albin and the Wm. Gaunitz family of Lansing.

~Allamakee Journal & Lansing Mirror, October 22, 1930