|
| Helen V. Bollman, Age 91 |
| Funeral Time: |
Saturday, May 6, 2006 10:30 Am |
| Funeral Location: |
First United Methodist Church, Sioux City, IA |
| Burial Location: |
Logan Park Cemetery, Sioux City, IA |
| |
|
HELEN V. BOLLMAN, 91
St. Cloud, MN
October 11, 1914 - April 28, 2006
Helen V. Bollman, age 91, St. Cloud, MN formerly of Sioux City, IA, died Friday, April 28, 2006 at St. Benedict’s Care Center, St. Cloud, MN, following a long illness.
Memorial services will be Saturday, May 6, 2006 at 10:30 AM at Meyers Brothers Colonial Chapel, Sioux City, IA. Rev. Roger Madden will officiate. Burial will be in Logan Park Cemetery, Sioux City, IA.
Helen Bollman was born October 11, 1914 in Sioux City, IA the eldest of Peter Henry Verstegen and Edna Marie Ostlund Verstegen’s five children. She married Harold Lee (Buck) Bollman on October 18, 1938 in Sioux City, IA.
Helen was a graduate of Sioux City Central High School, Stephen’s College, National Business College and Morningside College.
Helen lived in Sioux City her entire life until a few months ago in the final stages of her illness when she came to St. Cloud, Minnesota to be near family. She was a civic leader in Sioux City where she had been Executive Director of the YWCA, Junior League of Sioux City past president and sustaining member, member of Chapter GR, PEO, St. Luke’s Hospital Auxiliary, Quota Club Past President, Siouxland United Way Board, and a member of First Methodist Church. She had also been involved in her family’s business, the Verstegen Printing and Lithographing Company. Helen was an active community volunteer and an avid supporter of the performing and visual arts. Her family was her greatest joy and she loved to spend time with them anywhere but especially at her Lake Vermilion Minnesota cottage.
Helen was preceded in death by her parents Peter Henry Verstegen and Edna Ostlund Verstegen, sisters Lorraine Verstegen Ely, Jean Verstegen Bogle, and brother Richard Verstegen.
Survivors include her daughters and their husbands, Jana and Charles Preble, St. Joseph, MN, and Virginia and Michael Hale, McLean, VA; five grandchildren Margaret Preble Lahammer, Red Wing, MN, Katherine Preble, Minneapolis, MN, Kristin Avery, Houston, TX, Mary Hale, Cambridge, MA, and Stephen Hale, Philadelphia, PA, and two great grandchildren, Audrey Helen Lahammer and Andrew William Avery; her sister and brother-in-law Gertrude Verstegen Hinrichs and Neal, Lakewood, CO; brother-in-law Jim Bogle, Cape Girardeau, MO, and several nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers memorials are preferred to First Methodist Church, Sioux City, Iowa; Lake Vermilion Greenwood Township Fire and Rescue, Tower, Minnesota.
|
| |
Send your condolences
Benson Funeral Home invites you to use the form below to share your memories and offer
your sympathy to the family of the deceased. We will be honored to pass them along.
|
Send flowers
Click Here for a list of local florists.
|
|
|
