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WOOD, Helene (McDowell) 1921-2014

WOOD, MCDOWELL, BECHER

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 8/29/2014 at 00:32:43

December 30, 1921 - August 27, 2014

Obituary for Helene McDowell Wood

Helene McDowell Wood, 92, of Rudd, Iowa died Wednesday, August 27, 2014 at Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit in Mason City.

A funeral service will be held at 1:00pm on Saturday, August 30, 2014 at Sheckler Colonial Chapel, 114 North Hawkeye, Nora Springs, with Reverend Wendy Johannesen officiating. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery in Rudd.

A visitation, with viewing, will be held from 5-7pm on Friday evening, August 29, 2014 at Sheckler Colonial Chapel, 114 North Hawkeye, Nora Springs.

Helene was born on December 30, 1921 at LeRoy, Minnesota, the daughter of Harold and Lania McDowell.

Helene moved to Riceville, Iowa in 1931. She attended the country school. Her freshman year she went to Riceville High School. She moved to a farm in Osage, Iowa her last three years of high school. She became a teacher and taught country school for four years.

She married Ernest Oliver Wood on August 19, 1942. She and her husband then moved to Rudd, Iowa in 1948. She helped manage a truck line and hog buying station. She also taught at Holy Family School in Mason City in 1961. She later taught at Osage and Rudd schools. Helene retired in 1989 and moved with her husband to acreage near Fort Dodge, Iowa where she was a substitute teacher in the Ft. Dodge school district for ten years. She then moved back to Rudd where she resided until her death.

Helene in survived by her three children, Robert (Janice) Wood of Rudd, Iowa, Cynthia Becher of Ft. Dodge, Iowa, Craig (Dorothy) Wood of Rudd, Iowa, four grandchildren and six great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband; Ernest, one brother; Ralph McDowell, and a granddaughter; Tiffany Becher.

Sheckler Colonial Chapel, 114 North Hawkeye, Nora Springs. (641) 749-2210. ColonialChapels.com

Source: Colonial Chapel website
See also: Mason City Globe Gazette, 29 AUG 2014


 

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