Ludens, Helena Regina 1931-2022

LUDENS, PALSMA

Posted By: Marjorie Brunsting (email)
Date: 7/22/2022 at 18:23:57

Miss Helena Ludens, age 90, of Orange City, passed away on Tuesday, July 5, 2022, at the Prairie Ridge Care Center in Orange City.

There will be a funeral service on Saturday, July 9, at 10:00am, at the Oolman Funeral Home in Orange City with the Rev. Kurt Bush officiating. Interment will follow the service at the West Lawn Cemetery in Orange City.

Helena Regina was born on September 28, 1931, in Springfield, South Dakota, one of four children born to Henry and Annie (Palsma) Ludens. When she was a young child, her family moved to Lime Springs, where she graduated from the public school.

Following high school, Helena received her teaching certificate from the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls. She returned to Lime Springs and taught in a one room country school for a few years. In the mid-1950s, she moved to Woodstock, Minnesota, where she worked as a first-grade teacher at the public school in the nearby town of Edgerton. Upon retirement in 1997, she moved to Orange City. In 2011, she moved to the Landsmeer Ridge Retirement Community, and in 2018, she became a resident of the Prairie Ridge Care Center, both in Orange City.

Helena was a member of the Trinity Reformed Church in Orange City, where she participated in the Trinity Seniors. She also participated in Blocks and Knots, a womens’ quilting group at First Reformed Church in Orange City. She was a previous member of the Woodstock Reformed Church and of both the Minnesota Education Association and the Edgerton Education Association. Her hobbies included knitting, crocheting, and playing rummikub.

Survivors include a sister-in-law, Shirley Ludens, of Hampton, and many nieces and nephews.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by three brothers, John Peter Ludens, Louis Ludens, and Henry Howard Ludens; and a sister and her husband, Grace and Eugene Van Wyk.

Memorials will be given to the Blocks and Knots organization of First Reformed Church in Orange City.

Source: Oolman Funeral Home online obituary.