HUGHES, Helen Marie 1928-1953

HUGHES, KRAUSE

Posted By: Marilyn O'Connor (email)
Date: 12/12/2010 at 11:02:02

LONG ILLNESS IS FATAL TO
HELEN HUGHES, 25

Daughter of Mrs. and
Mrs. H. Hughes Was
Dietitian at Rochester

Miss Helen Marie Hughes, 25, daugher of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Hughes, died late Thursday evening, August 20, at the Colonial hospital in Rochester, Minnesota, after a lengthy illness.

Funeral services were held at the Evangelical United Brethern church in Nora Springs at 2:30 Sunday afternoon, Aug. 23, and were conducted by the pastor, the Rev. W. F. Ellerbeck, assisted by Paul Millbrandt. Interment was in Park cemetery.

The casket was borne by James Hughes, Clifton Ellerbeck, Tom Huffstettler, Maynard Mogk, Wesley Pippert and James Krause. Mrs. Leslie Kraft and Clifton Ellerbeck sang "Safe In The Arms of Jesus," "Going Home" and "Ivory Palaces.
They were accompanied on the piano by Mrs F. E. Yaggy. The floral tributes were arranged by Joan Valentine, Marcella Stalker and Margaret Rowley.

Miss Hughes was born July 5, 1928, at Mason City, a daughter of Hugh and Jessie Krause Hughes. Her early schooling was obtained at Plainfield and in Nora Springs. She was graduated from the Mason City high school in 1946 and from the Mason City junior college in 1948.

She received a B.S. degree from Iowa State college, Ames, on December 19, 1950, having majored in dietetics. While attending Iowa State college, she was awarded a scholarship to the Merrill-Palmer school at Detroit, Michigan, which she attended in the fall of 1949.

Following her graduation from Iowa State college, she interned for a year at Western Reserve university, Cleveland, Ohio. On June 9, 1953, she accepted a position as dietitian at the Colonial hosptial in Rochester, were she was employed at the time of her death.

She had suffered from a lingering illness since she was 22 months of age.

In addition to her parents, she is survived by a brother, Frank, a student at Iowa State college, Ames, a sister, Jessie Joan, a nurse at Rochester; her grandfather, Frank Krause of Nora Springs; and her grandmother, Mrs. Cora B. Hughes of Thornton.

She was a member of the American Dietetic association and the Evangelical United Brethren church of Nora Springs.

Attending the services from a distance were Mrs. Arthur MacArthur, Port Deposit, Md.; Mrs. Curtis L. Mendelson, of Sands Point, Long Island; George Hughes, Afton; Mr. and Mrs. Urban Braecker, La Porte City; Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Haseman, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Swanzinger and Mr. and Mrs. Perry Young of Plainfield; Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hunt and Mr. and Mrs. Everett Krause, Sumner.

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Prescott and family of Adams, Minn.; Mr. and Mrs. George Houghton and son Howard, and Miss Lillie Houghton, Marshalltown; Mr. and Mrs. Walthon Stephenson of Swea City; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Millbrant and son, Paul, Blue Earth, Minn.; Mrs. Mary Bauer, Jefferson Wisc.; James Creel, Miss Harriet Hawk and Miss Rodean Hildebrand, Ames; Mrs. Laura Evans, Des Moines, Mr. and Mrs. John Tallman and daughter, Mary Lois, Clarion.

Mr. and Mrs Robert Nelson, Eagle Grove; Miss Marilou Moats of Omaha; Herman, Esther and Ellen Freese Le Seur, Minn.; Mr. and Mrs. Harold Jenkins of Lyle, Minn.; Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Bartlett and Dr. and Mrs. Uran of Riceville; Dr. and Mrs. R. L. Brown and son, Paul, Mrs. Dora Watts, Mrs. Renee Cannday, Miss Nora McPhenny, and Mrs. P.Revere, Rochester, Minn.

(1954)