Helen Mabel (Abbott) Larson Dirksen (1902-1960)

ABBOTT, LARSON, DIRKSEN, ELKENS, MALY, BACON

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 3/6/2014 at 23:18:27

From unknown newspaper April 1960

Rites Tuesday For Mrs. Dirksen

Mrs. Helen Dirksen, 58, 616 Burnett Ave., died Saturday* at Mary Greeley Hospital.

She was born April 7, 1902 at Nevada. She was married to Henry Dirksen in 1921 at Nevada.

Survivors include a brother, Emmett Abbott, Ames; three half-sisters, Mrs. A. C. Elkens of Miami, Fla., Mrs. George Maly of Chicago and Mrs. George Bacon, Des Moines and five nieces.

Funeral services will be Tuesday at 2 p.m. from the Stevens Funeral Home, with the Rev. Roger Knight of the Gilbert Congregational Church officiating.

Burial will be in the Nevada Municipal Cemetery.

The body will lie in state at the Stevens Funeral Home tonight.

SUBMITTER'S NOTE: Helen Mabel (Abbott) Larson Dirksen died on 16 April 1960.