Helen M. (Petersen) HAUPT

HAUPT, JENSEN, PETERSEN, ROSS, EGEDE

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 12/19/2014 at 14:44:21

August 8, 1923 --- December 15, 2014

Helen M. Haupt, age 91, of Hampton passed away December 15, 2014 at the Rehabilitation Center of Hampton. Funeral services for Helen M. Haupt will be held at 11:00 A.M. Monday December 22, 2014 at the Nazareth Lutheran Church in Coulter. Pastor Stanley Peterson will officiate. Burial will take place in the Belmond Cemetery at approximately 1:00 P.M. on Monday. Visitation for Helen M. Haupt will take place from 10:00 until service-time at the church on Monday. Memorials may be made in Helen’s name to the family. Dugger Funeral Home, 320 East Street in Latimer is in charge of arrangements.

Helen was born August 8, 1923 to Walter and Hannah Jensen Petersen on a farm south of Coulter. Helen grew up in the Coulter-Latimer area. She graduated from Latimer High School in 1940. After graduation she attended UNI where she received her teaching certificate. She taught in rural schools in Hamilton Township. In 1970, Helen received her Bachelors Degree in Education from Drake University in Des Moines.

Helen married Bernard Haupt on December 28, 1947. Two daughters were born to this union Joann and Sharon. Helen continued her teaching in Goodell and Belmond for 42 1/2 years until her retirement in 1989. Helen's lifetime passion was teaching. She also loved to play the piano, listen to music, share jokes, work on crossword puzzles, travel, go on small field trips with her siblings and spend quality time with her family.

Helen is survived by her daughters, Joann Haupt of Cedar Rapids, and Sharon (David) Ross and her two granddaughters, Katie and Emily Ross, all of Ely, her sister, Elaine (Halvor) Egede of Hampton, and her sister-in-law, Edna Petersen of Latimer. She is preceded in death by her parents, husband, brother Kenneth and sister Mildred.

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