HELLING, Thomas Monroe 1931-2016

HELLING, SANDEN, HOVE

Posted By: K. L. Kittleson
Date: 3/29/2017 at 18:39:19

Services:
Monday, August 22, 2016 at Community Church of Hudson, 226 Eldora Rd.

Visitation:
Sunday, August 21, 2016 at Locke Funeral Home, Waterloo

Cemetery:
Hudson Cemetery

Memorials:
St. Jude's Children's Hospital

Biography--

Thomas Monroe Helling, 85, of Hudson, Iowa, died at Covenant Medical Center on Monday, August 15, 2016 of natural causes.

He was born August 15, 1931 in Kensett, Iowa, son of Thomas and Myrtle Sanden Helling and attended Kensett High School.

He married Shirley Ann Hove on October 7, 1949 at the Little Brown Church in Nashua, Iowa. He was a truck driver and worked for Northern Natural Gas Co. for 11 years and then joined the Hudson Police Department and retired as chief of police after 24 years in 1989.

He was a member of the Community Church of Hudson.

Thomas is survived by his wife Shirley; two sons, Richard and his wife Marilyn of Hudson and Mark and his fiancée Lisa of Benson, Arizona; son-in-law, Ross Harder of Hudson; four grandchildren: Heather (Gabe) Wyckoff, Missy Helling, Aaron (Melissa) Helling, and Kris (Brooke) Helling; six great-grandchildren: Nathan and Brady Wyckoff, Scarlett Helling, and Kale, Liam and Karson Helling; four sisters: Betty Shanks of Spokane, Washington, Donna Gray and her husband Larry of Mason City, Iowa, Barb Gibbs of Granbury, Texas, and Charlotte Jost of Lincoln, Nebraska; and his brother, Bob of Longville, Minnesota.

He is preceded in death by his daughter, Vicky Harder; a granddaughter, April Harder; and a brother, Archie.

Source: Locke Funeral Home