Helen Louise Warren 1925-2011

WARREN MCCRACKEN WITT

Posted By: Connie Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 7/16/2012 at 18:54:53

Sioux City Journal
January 01, 2012

Helen Louise Warren, 86, of Moville passed away Thursday, Dec. 29, 2011 at a Kingsley nursing home.

Graveside services will be held 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in the Arlington Township Cemetery at Moville, with the Rev. Harold Werley officiating. Visitation will be 5 to 7 p.m. Monday at the McCulloch Chapel, Christy-Smith Funeral Home in Moville.

Helen was born on Dec. 7, 1925 in Van Buren County, Iowa. She was the daughter of Albert and Margaret (Witt) McCracken. She was raised in Bentonsport, Iowa, and graduated from Bonaparte High School in 1943. She worked in Ft. Madison, Iowa, at W. A. Sheaffer Pen Company.

On Sept. 4, 1944, she married Albert Clifford Warren. To this union a son, Dick, and a daughter, Becky, were born. The family lived in Birmingham, Iowa, until they moved to Moville in 1961. After moving to Moville, Helen went to work at St. Joseph Hospital as a nurse's aide and later worked as a unit secretary for 18 years. She took early retirement in 1983. Clifford died on Dec. 25, 1985.

Helen enjoyed flowers, flea markets, yard work, crocheting and making several afghans.

She is survived by a son and his wife, Dick and Annette of Onawa, Iowa; a daughter and her husband, Becky and Nevin Moodie of Moville; six grandchildren, Jay and Laurie Warren of Moville, Reuben and Veronica Warren of Sloan, Iowa, Ann and Denny Sandford of Onawa, Iowa, Garrick and Kristie Warren of Maryland, Adam Moodie of Moville, and Clifford and Nicole Moodie of Kingsley, Iowa; and great-grandchildren, Hailey, Mackenzie and Izabella Moodie, Megan, Makayla and Colton Warren, Catie, Gabe, Schuylar and Gavin Warren, Jaxson, Jannie, JoAnna Koneg and Emily Sandford.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; three brothers, Robert, Delbert and one in infancy; one sister, Rosemarie Ferrell; and two grandchildren, Tracy and Matthew Moodie.

A memorial has been established in her name for the Iowa Department of the Blind.