Lubbers, Helen Marr Reid (1907-1995)

LUBBERS, REID, YOELLS, PTACEK, MOODY, SHEPHERD

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 2/22/2015 at 11:05:16

Daily Freeman Journal, Friday, January 13, 1995

Helen Lubbers, 87, Webster City, died Jan. 12, 1995 at Crestview Manor Care Center in Webster City. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday at Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd with the Rev. Steve Hall officiating. Burial will be at a later date at Graceland Cemetery. The body was donated to the anatomical department of the University of Iowa, Iowa City. Arrangements were made by Foster Funeral Home.

Helen Marr Reid, daughter of Clarence and Effie (Yoells) Reid, was born Nov. 1, 1907 at Heartland, Wis. At the age of 2, she moved with her parents to Sioux City. She graduated from Sioux City Central and received her bachelor of art's degree in social work from Morningside College, Sioux City, then continued her education in special education at Drake University. She taught school at Ida Grove and later became a case worker for the State of Iowa in Rockwell City and Des Moines.

On July 30, 1935, she married Verne Lubbers at Waukegon, Ill. The couple resided in Webster City. During World War II, she worked for the Red Cross. She started teaching special education in the Webster City school system in 1967, retiring in 1975. She had resided at the care center since 1994.

She is survived by her husband; sons and daughters-in-law, Richard and Barb Lubbers and Mike and Laurie Lubbers, all of Webster City, Phil and Sue Lubbers of Thomasville, Ga.; daughters and sons-in-law, Linda and John Ptacek of Nevada and Janet and Bill Moody of Webster City; nine grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents; grandchildren, Reid and Sarah Lubbers; and sister, Clara Anna Shepherd.

She was a member of St. Margaret's Guild, Chapter JE of P.E.O., Eastern Star, American Association of University Women and Hamilton County Public Hospital Auxiliary. She was also a volunteer teacher at Country Meadows care facility and a volunteer with the Meals on Wheels program and Hamilton County Special Olympics. The family requests memorials in lieu of flowers to Hamilton County Hospice, St. Margaret's Guild or Meals on Wheels.