HELGELAND, Kristine 1914-1996

HELGELAND

Posted By: K. Kittleson
Date: 1/19/2009 at 12:15:59

Kristine Noble Helgeland

NORTHWOOD -- Kristine Noble Helgeland, 82, of 800 North 10th St., died Thursday (Dec. 19, 1996) at the Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit, Mason City.

Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the First Lutheran Church, with the Rev. Mark Bentz officiating. The commital service will take place at the conclusion of services at the church. The body will be cremated, with inurnment at a later date in the North Shell Rock Cemetery, rural Northwood. Visitation will be held from 4 to 6:30 p.m. today at the Conner Colonial Chapel, 99-11th St. S., and one hour prior to services at the church.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial contributions be made to Hospice of North Iowa or First Lutheran Church, Northwood.

Kristine Noble Helgeland was born June 16, 1914, on a farm west of Northwood, the daughter of John and Barbra (Espedokken) Ellingson. She attended kindergarten through the 12th grade in the Northwood School system. After graduation in 1933, she worked as a 4-H leader; worked in the Farm Bureau office in Northwood; kept house for her father on the west farm for one year; and worked for Lulu Tosdal.

She entered nurse's training at Naeve Hospital in Albert Lea, Minn., graduating as a registered nurse in 1940. She went to Los Angeles, Calif,. in 1941 where she worked as an obstetrical nurse at the Good Samaritan Hospital. She later worked as a nurse in the office of Dr. Fagan, a gynecologist in Beverly Hills.

She married Jim Noble in 1945; they lived in Westchester, Calif., later moving to Santa Ana where they lived until Jim's death in 1974. Kristine continued to live in Santa Ana until she moved back to Northwood in 1985. In the interim, she worked as a nurse and secretary in the office of Dr. Engleman in Santa Ana.

She and David Helgeland were married in 1985.

Through Kristine's life, she has been an avid seamstress, a member of square dancing clubs both in Northwood and California. Both she and David were members of square dancing clubs in Albert Lea, as well as the swimming classes at the "Y".

Music has been a large part of her life, having been a member of church and high school choral groups, but playing the piano was her main recreation.

She was baptized and confirmed in the Shell Rock Lutheran Church where she was an active member of the choir, Luther League and taught Sunday school. She has been a member of the First Lutheran Church, in Northwood, since her return to Northwood where she has been an active member of the ``Golden Tones Choir,'' Rachel Circle and Ladies Aid.

She is survived by her husband, David; a daughter, Barbara and her husband, Virgil Stephens, Garland, Texas; four grandchildren, Lisa, Lori, Joseph and Kristine, Garland and Dallas, Texas; three great-grandchildren, Trevor Yokochi, Rachel and Sadie Land; a sister, June Hermanson, Colton, Calif.; two brothers, the Rev. Hiram Ellingson and his wife, Hannah, Minneapolis, Minn., and Lemoyne Ellingson and his wife, Jean, of Northwood; six nieces, Kay Ellingboe, Troutdale, Ore.; Mary Ellingson, Minneapolis, Minn.; Patricia Copeland, Harrisburg, Ore.; Barbara Clark, Riverside, Calif.; Kim Kotur, Bozeman, Mont., and Pam Wallace, Lafayette, Colo.; four nephews, John Nelson, Junction City, Ore.; Matthew and John Ellingson, Minneapolis, Minn., and Norval Hermanson, Cedar Rapids; also Judy Helgeland, Byron, Minn.; the Rev. Mark and Pauline Helgeland and Andrew, Byron, Minn.

She was preceded in death by her parents; and her first husband, Jim Noble.

[Mason City Globe Gazette - 12/21/1996]