Thompson, Helena Mahood (1904-1971)

THOMPSON, MAHOOD, REED, MAIGE

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 2/11/2015 at 12:25:51

Daily Freeman Journal, Friday, June 18, 1971

Mrs. Helena Mahood Thompson, (Mrs. Harold Thompson), 66, prominent Webster City resident, died Thursday afternoon at Mercy hospital in Fort Dodge. She had been a patient there the past week and a half. She had been in ill health the past three weeks.

Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. Monday at Trinity Lutheran church with the Rev. R. M. Roden officiating and with burial in Graceland cemetery.

The body will lie in state at the Foster Funeral home until 9:30 a.m. Monday when it will be taken to the church.

Helena Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. G.W. and Mary Reed Mahood, was born Oct. 7, 1904, at Webster City. When she was a small child, the family moved to Chicago and later to Fort Ridge, Ontario, where she attended elementary school.

The family then moved to Cedar Rapids where she was graduated from high school and later attended the Mercy Hospital School of Nursing, graduating in 1925. She moved to Ann Arbor, Mich., where she was superintendent of the St. Joseph's Hospital School of Nursing. In 1933, she returned to Webster City and entered private duty nursing.

She was united in marriage Jan. 6, 1934 at Emmetsburg to Harold Lawrence Thompson. In 1937, she took over the position of public school nurse for four years. During World War II she served as acting hospital administrator here, and served as a member of the Hamilton County hospital board for 24 years. For seven of those years she served as board secretary and for three years was chairman of the board.

She is survived by her husband; two aunts, Mrs. Ida Reed, at Friendship Haven and Mrs. Hazel Mahood, Washington, D.C.; two nieces and one nephew; five cousins, including Lewis Mahood of Des Moines.

She was preceded in death by one daughter, Helena M. Thompson, who died in infancy; by her parents and one sister, Mrs. Jean Maige.

She was past president of the LCW of the Trinity Lutheran church and was an active member of that church. She was also a member of the Married Nurses club for several years.