HELGESON, Paul S. 1942-2006

HELGESON

Posted By: Gordon Felland (email)
Date: 4/19/2007 at 20:42:45

Paul Steven Helgeson, 64, of Northwood, died Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2006, at the Lutheran Retirement Home in Northwood. Funeral services were held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 2, at the Evangelical Free Church, Clear Lake, with Reverend David Wiersbe officiating. Burial was in the Sunset Rest Cemetery in Northwood.

Paul Steven Helgeson was born on Jan. 6, 1942, in Story City, Iowa, the son of Kerner and Florence (Severson) Helgeson. He attended and graduated from Radcliffe High School in 1960, Waldorf College in 1962, and also from Iowa State University. Upon completing his schooling he was a salesman for Farm Service Company in Indianola, Iowa before moving to Northwood to raise his family on their farm west of Northwood. He also worked for Farm Service Company in Worth County, and sold insurance for Farm Bureau in Northwood. The family farmed for 25 years in the Northwood area before his retirement moving into Northwood in 2002.

He was united in marriage to Sharon Reyerson on Aug. 1, 1964, at the Silver Lake Lutheran Church, rural Northwood, and to this union three children were born; Michelle, Susan, and Steven.

He enjoyed entertaining friends, hosting bible study groups, music, auctions, remodeling homes, landscaping, and his mission trip to Mexico with the Christian farmers organization, but his great love and enjoyment was his family, grandchildren, and countless friends.

He was a member of Evangelical Free Church in Clear Lake, First Lutheran Church in Northwood, and the Worth County Extension Council in Northwood.

Left to cherish his memory is his wife of 42 years, Sharon Helgeson of Northwood; children: Michelle Perry and her husband Rick of Marion, Iowa, Susan Kliment and her husband Darrin of Northwood, and Steven Helgeson and his wife Katie of Roland, Iowa; sister, Kathryn Helgeson of Gurnee, Illinois, a brother; Thomas Helgeson and his wife Barbara of Radcliffe, Iowa, and a sister, Linda Thompson and her husband Dave of Shenandoah, Iowa.