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CHINN, Helga O. (Berg) 1890-1969

BERG, CHINN

Posted By: County Coordinator (kermit)
Date: 9/11/2010 at 20:44:21

#1: (Obit)

MRS. GEORGE CHINN

OSAGE, IOWA - Services for Mrs. George Chinn, 78, who died Sunday in Honolulu, Hawaii, are pending at the Champion Funeral Home in Osage.

Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Howard Angell of Honolulu; a son, Chester of Aurora, Colorado; three grandchildren.

[Waterloo Courier, Wednesday, May 14, 1969]

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#2: (Bio)

George Hubert Chinn and Helga (Berg) Chinn were custodians of the Mitchell County Home for many years. Helga and George were married October 4, 1909 in Osage. He managed a farm in Rock Township. They moved to Kermit, North Dakota in 1914 and remained there for ten years before returning to Mitchell County.

They had three children: Chester, Mahlon, and Dulcie. Dulcie married Howard Angell. She was a private nurse for Mr. Cudahy, owner of Cudahy Packing Company, for many years. Chester and Mahlon both left Mitchell County; Chester was in Omaha, Nebraska in 1946, Mahlon was still in Osage.

George and Helga were both buried at the Oak Grove Cemetery, Mitchell, Iowa.

George was the son of George William and Mary Ann (Campbell) Chinn, born March 27, 1871 at Mitchell. He had a brother, William and a sister, Winnie, both older than he was. George William Chinn was born in 1840 and died August 26, 1991. Mary Ann Chinn was born January 29, 1850 near Stoughton, Dane Co., Wisconsin, the daughter of Michael and Mary Campbell. She died June 20, 1930 in Osage, having moved there in 1914. Both are buried at Oak Grove Cemetery in Mitchell.

William Chinn died at the age of 28 on November 16, 1900 at his home in Rock Creek. He had been married for four years to Elizabeth Stevens (May 19, 1897) and had two small children. He is also buried at Mitchell.

[Story from MITCHELL COUNTY HISTORY, 1989]
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Oak Grove Cemetery, Mitchell

Chinn, Helga O. 1890 -- 1969

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Photo from MITCHELL COUNTY HISTORY, 1989.

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