Judas, Helen Joan (Jepsen) 1935 - 2020

JUDAS, JEPSEN, HANSEN, SPENLER, LANDRY, HILTON, BELLMER

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 5/19/2024 at 21:00:46

Helen Joan Judas, 84 of Williamsburg, IA, formerly of Decorah, IA, died Thursday, January 23, 2020 at Highland Ridge Care Center in Williamsburg.

Funeral Services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Friday, January 31, 2020 at Fjelstul Funeral Home in Decorah, with Rev. Susan Debner officiating. Burial will be in Lutheran Cemetery in Decorah in the spring.

Visitation will begin at 10:00 a.m. Friday, one hour before the service, at Fjelstul Funeral Home.

Helen was born April 6, 1935 in rural Greene, IA, the daughter of Lawrence and Dorothy (Hansen) Jepsen. Helen attended country school and graduated from Greene Community School with the class of 1952. She attended the Iowa State Teachers College in Cedar Falls and taught school for many years in Hansel and Geneva. On June 7, 1959 Helen married Eugene E. Judas at the First Presbyterian Church in Greene, IA. Helen was a dedicated employee at Decorah Newspapers for many years. When Gene suffered a stroke in 1982, she provided loving care to him until his death in 2003. Upon her retirement she moved to Williamsburg to be closer to family.

Helen is survived by three children: son Eric and his wife Phyllis Judas of Shellsburg, daughter Beth and her husband Darren Spenler of Williamsburg, and daughter Ellen and her husband Michael Landry of Land O' Lakes, FL; five grandchildren: Katie and her husband Austin Hilton, Ross Spenler, Mitchell and his wife Gabbie Spenler, Erica and Veronica Judas; one great-granddaughter Reagan Hilton; three brothers; Paul and his wife Glenda Jepsen of Greene, Lee and his wife Betty Jepsen of Waukon, and Larry Jepsen of Waterloo; one brother-in-law Douglas Bellmer of Cedar Falls; along with many nieces and nephews.

Helen was preceded in death by her loving husband Gene, her sister Ruth Bellmer and her parents.

Source: Fjelstul Funeral Home database

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