HELLENSCHMIDT, Roger H. 1921-2008
HELLENSCHMIDT, GUETZLAFF, BELL
Posted By: K. Kittleson (email)
Date: 4/3/2008 at 18:05:58
[Waterloo Courier -- March 30, 2008]
Roger H. Hellenschmidt
Services for Roger Henry Hellenschmidt have been scheduled for Monday, March 31, at 10:30 a.m. at Grace Lutheran Church, with burial in Memorial Park Cemetery, where full military rites will be conducted by American Legion Post 138 and Veteran of Foreign Wars Post 1623.
Roger Henry Hellenschmidt was born to Emil Hellenschmidt and Ida Manske November 23, 1921.
He graduated from Waterloo West High School June 1940 and enrolled in John Deere’s machinist apprentice program. He enlisted in the USMC, May 1942, trained as a machinist and was promoted to PFC. Roger was crew chief and rear gunner with a marine air squadron and fought in the South Pacific, including the Solomon Islands and Bougainville, receiving five campaign ribbons. He was honorably discharged, August, 1945 as Staff Sergeant.
He married Margaret Loraine Guetzlaff on October 4, 1942 at Trinity Lutheran Church. After the war, he attended Iowa State University, and then was employed by Iowa Public Service in the underground electrical department. They raised three children, Janice, Mark and Paul. Roger and Loraine were married twenty-nine years until her death in 1971.
He married Carmen Bell December 30, 1972 and attended Grace Lutheran Church and had a fulfilled life of 35 years with Carmen’s children, Craig, Colin, Cory and Laura. He died March 26, at Covenant Medical Center.
Roger is survived by his wife, Carmen Hellenschmidt, sons, Mark (Glee) and Paul (Marcia Weldon) Hellenschmidt, step-children, Craig (Sharon) Bell, Corey (Becky) Bell and Laura (Ken) Beckwith, twelve grandchildren, and a great-granddaughter.
He was preceded in death by his parents, a sister, Irma Bergsma, a brother, Emil Jr., wife, Loraine, daughter, Janice Seller, step-son, Colin Bell and three infant grandsons.
Viewing at Hagarty-Waychoff-Grarup Funeral Service on West Ridgeway, Waterloo, from 3:00 – 7:00 p.m. today and at the church for an hour before services on Monday.
In lieu of flowers, memorials can be sent, in his name, to the American Heart Association.
Black Hawk Obituaries maintained by Karen De Groote.
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