Knutson, Mary Helen (1921-2012)
KNUTSON, CAMPBELL, NOLL, MANGUM, ALLERSON, NOVOTNY
Posted By: Paul Nagy (email)
Date: 3/10/2012 at 13:47:39
Mary Helen Knutson
(September 3, 1921 - March 5, 2012)FOREST CITY - Mary Helen Knutson, age 90, of Forest City, died Monday, March 5, 2012, at the Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit in Mason City.
Mary Helen Knutson was born September 3, 1921, in Emmetsburg, Iowa, the youngest child of James Franklin and Emma Hazel (Noll) Campbell.
On September 3, 1939, she married Curtis Knutson in Emmetsburg. They were married for sixty-three years before Curt passed away in 2003. For eighteen years, they made their home in Wells, Minnesota, where all of their children graduated from high school. Later, they moved to Forest City, Iowa, where Curt was employed by Winnebago Industries. They retired in 1978 and spent much of the next twenty years traveling the continental United States and Canada in their Winnebago Motor Home, making friends from shore to shore. Mary Helen continued to reside in Forest City after Curt’s passing and valued the friendships that she made in that community over the years.
A lifelong Methodist, Mary Helen was always involved in church activities and especially enjoyed the ladies circles that she joined both in Wells and in Forest City and even when traveling. She enjoyed keeping house and was an especially avid reader, raising three children with the same passion. She also loved and was loved by many pets over the years and especially her last cat, Smidgen.
Mary Helen was preceded in death by her parents; her brothers: Raymond and Richard Campbell; her sister, Bessie Fern Campbell; and her beloved daughter, Mary Kathleen Mangum, in 2011. She is survived by her sons, Ernest (Evangeline) Knutson, of Lindstrom, Minnesota, and Dan (Jerri) Knutson, of Columbia, Tennessee; four grandchildren: Dawn (Ken) Allerson, of Osseo, Minnesota, Diana (John) Novotny, of Ham Lake, Minnesota, William Mangum, of Olivia, Minnesota, and Eric John (Toni) Knutson, of Rosemount, Minnesota; as well as four great-grandchildren.
Funeral service will be held at 10:30 AM on Friday, March 9, 2012, at the United Methodist Church in Forest City with Pastor Jerald Swanberg officiating. Visitation will be held an hour prior to the service at the church. Inurnment will be in the spring in Emmetsberg, Iowa.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials be directed to the United Methodist Church Elevator Fund.
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