Helen Roberta Boyd (2009)

BOYD, NIEBUHR, SCHWENIGER

Posted By: Shirley Keating
Date: 10/12/2009 at 21:55:16

Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, October 7, 2009

HELEN BOYD, WINTERSET

Helen Roberta Boyd, 88, of Winterset died Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009, at the Country Haven Guest Home.

No services are planned. Burial will be in the Sloan Cemetery in Sloan, Iowa.

Helen Roberta Boyd was born July 15, 1921 in Winnebago, Neb., to Bert and Helen Grace (Niebuhr) Boyd. During WW II, Helen joined the Women’s Army Corp and served in New Guinea and the Philippines. Following the war, she became a registered nurse and taught at the University of Minnesota and Augustana College. She also served as executive secretary of the South Dakota Board of Nursing and as Associate Chief of Nursing Education in the Veterans Administration. Helen collaborated with the Presentation Sisters to develop one of the earliest schools of practical nursing in the state of South Dakota. Helen had numerous interests and was an avid bird watcher. She moved to Winterset from Sioux Falls, SD, in 2007.

She was preceded in death by an older brother, Richard and a twin brother, Harold.

She is survived by a nephew, Kenneth Boyd of Winterset; a niece, Carol Schweniger of Leawood, Kan., and several great-nieces and nephews.