Rehwaldt, Helen W. 1911-2008

REHWALDT, DONNELLY, WELCH, BROWN

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes
Date: 1/4/2015 at 13:04:01

Wittich Funeral Home Obituaries

HELEN W. REHWALDT

Helen W. Rehwaldt, 96, of Muscatine, died Thursday, February 28, 2008, at Muscatine Care Center. Funeral Mass will be 10 a.m. Monday, March 3, 2008, at St. Mathias Church, 215 West Eighth Street. The Rev. Paul Appel will officiate the mass. Private burial will be in St. Mary's Cemetery. There will be no visitation. The Ralph J. Wittich-Riley-Freers Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the Friends of the Musser Library. Helen was born on August 24, 1911, in Rock Island, Illinois the daughter of Frank P. and Lucy A. Donnelly Welch. She married Charles A. Rehwaldt of Racine, Wisconsin, on August 10, 1932, in Evanston, Illinois. They moved to Muscatine in 1940. He preceded her in death on May 17, 1976. She attended Northwestern and the University of Arizona, Tucson. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi Sorority. She was active in several charities and civic organizations including Community Players, United Way, St. Mathias Church, Catholic Daughters of the Americas Joan of Arc Court 524, and the Twenty Century Club. She had also been a member of the Friends of the Musser Public Library. She and her husband were co-owners of Lamp-Rehwaldt Company in Muscatine. Survivors include one son, Michael Rehwaldt of Arlington, Virginia; two granddaughers, Katie Rehwaldt and Helen Rehwaldt Brown, both of Washington, D.C.; one great-grandson, Ian Brown, and her daughter-in-law, Frances Rehwaldt also of Washington, D.C. Helen was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, one son, Charles Rehwaldt Jr. in 1995, and one brother, Edgar Welch.