Services were held for Helena Mannetter on Saturday, November 24, 2001 at St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church in Charles City, Iowa with the Rev. Mark Anderson officiating. Burial was in the Riverside Cemetery also in Charles City.

Helena Mannetter died Thursday, November 22 at Mitchell County Regional Health Center in Osage, Iowa of natural causes.

Helena Evelyn Schmidtke Mannetter was born March 16, 1909, in rural Orchard, Iowa, the daughter of Alexander Ferdinand and Helena Christine (Guderian) Schmidtke. She was baptized in'April of 1909 at St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church in Charles City, by Reverend Casselman. As a young girl, she moved with her family to rural Osakis, MN where she attended the local country District 23 School. In 1926, she graduated from.Qsakis High School and continued her education there taking additional secretarial courses the next year. Later, she moved back to rural Orchard with her parents. She worked as a housekeeper for the Bill and Clara Wandro Family caring for Donald, Gallus and Gale. Sunday, September 6, 1942, she and Siegfried Fred Mannetter were united in marriage at the Little Brown Church in Nashua, IA by the Reverend Walter M. Fritschel. The couple lived and farmed in the Deerfield area. In March of 1943, they moved to rural Elma where they farmed and in March of 1953 moved to the farm where she residing at the time of her death. She was a member of St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church in Charles City, where she was active in her church circle. Thru the years, she was a Mitchell County Extension Council member, a member of the Farm Bureau and the Farm Bureau Women’s Organization. She enjoyed going on bus trips with the Osage Senior Center. But most of all, she loved her three grandchildren and her great granddaughter, Mija.

She is preceded in death by her parents, husband Zeke, infant daughter Dianne Lynne, two sisters Frances and Ruth and two brothers Vernon and Donald.

Helena is survived by a daughter Kay (Algie A.) Slindee of Elma, grandchildren Sonja (Michael) Cotton of Charles City, Brent of Elma, Nadia of Cedar Rapids, a great granddaughter Mija of Charles City, a brother Harold (Wanda) Schmidtke of Oscoda, MI and two sisters-in-law Laura (Wilbur) Henry of Charles City and Regina Wise of California, a brother-in-law Agon (Barbara) Mannetter of Charles City and several cousins, nieces and nephews.

Source: Riceville Recorder; Nov. 29, 2001 Page 10
from Elma library collection assembled by Marian (Marr) McGee
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