LUKES, Helen (Beadell) 1912-2003

LUKES, BEADELL, SOULE, BROSHAR

Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 2/23/2015 at 23:28:32

Helen Beadell Lukes, 91, died Friday, May 2, 2003, at the Oakwood Care Center in Clear Lake, where she had resided since 1999.

Helen Beadell was born February 9, 1912, in Austin, Minnesota, to Alvah E. Beadell and Bessie Soule Beadell, the youngest of six children. Her early years were spent on a farm in Lansing, Minnesota, and she graduated from Austin High School. Helen married Richard R. Lukes on October 30, 1930, and they lived in a number of communities throughout Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska, moving to the Waterloo-Cedar Falls area upon Dick's retirement in 1974. Helen was a north Iowa representative of the American Cancer Society for a number of years, while living in Algona. Following a series of strokes in 1998, she moved to Clear Lake. Helen was a member of Westminster Presbyterian Church in Waterloo.

Survivors include her son and daughter-in-law, Richard and Jane Felger Lukes, of Los Angeles, California; daughter and son-in-law Joyce and Robert Broshar, of Clear Lake; and six grandchildren and their spouses - Scott and Wendy Broshar of Chelsea, Michigan, Michael and Mary Broshar of Waterloo, Matthew and Diane Broshar of Marshalltown, Patrick and Julie Broshar of Waterloo, Elizabeth Broshar Russett and Robert Russett of Clive, and Anne Marie Lukes Medina and Anthony Medina of Whittier, California. Her seventeen great grandchildren are Sarah and Christine Broshar; and Katherine Broshar Susong; Aaron, Elizabeth, Laura, and Taylor Broshar; Jessica, Steven, and Zachary Broshar; Austin and Sawyer Broshar; Lukes and Lauren Russett; Vanessa, Nicolette, and Ariel Medina.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Richard, in 1987, her parents, brothers Elester, Edwin, Clarence, Don and Walter, and a half sister, Mayre.

[Source: Locke Funeral Home]