OBITUARY: Helen (Pitzen) Reynolds, 1912-2005, Mitchell County, Iowa

             

                            Helen Reynolds

A Mass of Christian Burial for Helen Reynolds, age 92, of Stacyville, was
held Saturday, March 5, 2005, at Visitation Catholic Church in Stacyville
with Rev. Mark Reasoner officiating.

Burial was in the Visitation Cemetery in Stacyville, Iowa.  Helen died
Thursday, March 3, 2005, at the Stacyville Community Nursing Home.

Helen was born August 19, 1912, in Stacyville, the daughter of William and
Amy (Kinney) Pitzen.

She graduated from the old Visitation High School in 1930, and then attended
the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul. After the premature death of her
father in a hunting accident, she and her mother moved to Wisconsin, where
her married sister was living. Helen then attended the Business College in
Milwaukee, after which she was employed in a General Motors Office in
Janesville, Wisconsin, for several years. It was here that she met her
husband, Jim.

They were married on Feb. 18, 1939, and had been happily together for
63 years when Jim passed away in August of 2002. When World War II broke
out, Jim was transferred to a plant in Bay City, Mich., where they lived
for five years. Following a year in Flint, Mich., they moved to Milwaukee,
where they spent the next 24 years. While living in Milwaukee, Helen was 
employed for 11 years at the First Wisconsin National Bank.

Helen was an excellent pianist.  After retirement, she and Jim lived
in several places, including Roswell, New Mexico, and Bellevue, Nebraska,
before retiring to Stacyville in the fall of 1988.
                                           
Helen was preceded in death by her parents; her husband Jim Reynolds; and a
sister, Alice Pospeschil.

Helen is survived by her son William Reynolds of Chicago, Illinois, a niece
Susan Olson-Mandler and a nephew Fred Pospeschil.

The Champion-Bucheit Funeral Home, Osage, was in charge of arrangements.



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