BLAHA, Helen 1893-1981

BLAHA, DAVENPORT, BARNES

Posted By: Tammy (email)
Date: 1/13/2022 at 09:40:56

Helen Blaha Of Whitten Died

Services for Mrs. Helen Blaha, 87, who died at Port Charlotte, Fla., Friday, Feb. 6, were held Wednesday, Feb. 11 at the Whitten Community Church at 1:30 p.m. Pastor Darrell Bailey and the Rev. Alan Avery of Marshalltown officiated with burial in the Benson Cemetery, rural Whitten.

Mrs. Blaha, a Whitten resident since 1914, had spent the winters in Florida the last 15 years. She was a 50-year member of the Order of Eastern Star, a lifetime member of the Episcopal Church and held a life membership in the University of Iowa Alumni Association and Spinning Wheel Chapter, the Daughters of the American Revolution. She was a charter member of the Kensington Club.

Born the daughter of Noble and Catherine Barnes Davenport, she was reared at Roxbury, Conn., attended Northfield School at Northfield, Mass., and graduated from the University of Iowa School of Nursing. She and Dr. George Blaha married at Roxbury June 26, 1913, and spent a year in Boston, where he interned at Massachusetts General Hospital before establishing a practice in Whitten where he remained for 55 years. He died in 1973.

Surviving are two sons, Dr. Vernon Blaha, Grayline, Mich., and Dr. Davis Blaha, Marshalltown; five grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Anna Camberlain of Brockton, Mass. and a niece, Mrs. Edna Church of Port Charlotte.

--The Grundy Register (Grundy Center, Iowa), 12 February 1981, pg 6