Helen Mae Copps Marks 1895-1939

MARKS, COPPS, RORICK, WHITE

Posted By: Paul Moritz (email)
Date: 8/15/2010 at 07:16:16

Mrs. Henry Marks, nee Helen Mae Copps, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Copps was born in Chicago, Ill. on June 6, 1895, and passed to her heavenly home Saturday morning at 7:30 on July 29th at the residence in the Presbyterian manse in Lansing, Iowa, at the age of 44 years, one month and 23 days.
At the age of one year her family moved to Fond Du Lac, Wis. where she spent her girlhood days attending the public schools.
In 1912, the family moved to Minneapolis, Minn.,where Mrs. Marks finished her public education in West High School and the University of Minnesota, after which she attended and graduated from the Presbyterian Training School in Chicago.
After her graduation, Mrs. Marks was for three years secretary of the Grace Presbyterian church in Minneapolis, Minn. She was also a member of the Minneapolis Chapter of D.A.R. and Women's Club in Lancaster, Wis.
On Sept 9, 1925, she was untied in marriage to Rev. Henry Marks, then of Monticell, Iowa.
This union was blessed with one daughter, Ruth Marian, who shares the sorrow of her demise with her father.
In 1929, this devoted family moved to Lancaster, where they served the Presbyterian church from Feb. 2, 1938, at which time they moved to this community.
Thus a true Christian wife and mother has been called to her reward after a well spent life in which her family and her church were her chief concerns.
She is survived by her husband and daughter, her mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Copps of Stevens Point, Wis.; two sisters, Mrs. Roland Rorick of Palo Alto, Calif., and Mrs. E. M. White of Elgin, Ill.; two brothers, L. A. Copps and H. E. Copps, both of Minneapolis, Minn.; also a large circle of other relatives and friends.
Funeral services were conducted yesterday afternoon at the house by Rev. De Witt Stauffer, with burial in Oak Hill cemetery. From the house they adjourned to the German Presbyterian church and the Calvary Evangelical church which was wired with a microphone so all could hear. Both buildings were filled to capacity with relatives and friends of the departed.
The order of church services were; Processional, Invocation, Duet, "Sunrise" by the Misses Ada Bauman and Dorothy Bechtel, Prayer by Rev. A.C. Boul, 1st Presbyterian church, Dubuque; Scripture, Rev. Lloyd Bartholomew; Obituary, Rev. De Witt Stauffer; Sermon and Closing Prayer, Rev. J.L. Haack, Evangelical Synod, Lancaster, Wis.; Choir, "There's No Disappointment In Heaven"; Recessional. The committal prayers at the graveside were said by Rev. A.C. Boul. The group of boys who were in her Sunday school class served as honorary pallbearers with the following active casket bearers, Edwin Gelo, Frank Bechtel, Warren Kerndt, Harlan Shellhammer (sic), Harvey Rissman and Harold Dee.
From out of town attending the funeral were all the families of the immediate relatives besides friends from Minneapolis, Lancaster and other places whose names we were unable to secure.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to express our heartfelt thanks and sincere appreciation to all our friends for their many expressions of sympathy and acts of kindness shown us during our recent bereavement.
Rev. H. Marks and Ruth
The Copps Family
The Marks Family
Source: Allamakee Journal, Lansing, IA - August 2, 1939