Kay County OK Obit for: Alice (Sifferd) Helsel ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/kay/kay.html http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** Submitted to the archives by:Claudia Thiry, workfarm@kskc.net Date submitted: 3/02/2003 Obit transcribed from the Newkirk Herald by submitter. *********************************************************************** December 6, 2001 Alice Helsel Alice E. Helsel, 83, of Arkansas City, KS, died Nov. 22, 2001 at the South Central Kansas Regional Medical Center in Arkansas City. Funeral services were held at 10:30 a.m. Nov. 26, 2001 at the Rindt-Erdman Funeral Home. Interment was in the Newkirk Cemetery in Newkirk. Helsel was born July 29, 1918 in Newkirk, and was the daughter of Charles O. and Bessie May (Wright) Sifferd. Alice was reared and educated in Newkirk graduating from Newkirk High School in 1932. She married Lewis Helsel on May 1, 1938 in Newkirk. They made their first home in Pratt, KS moving to Arkansas City in 1948 where her husband became the minister of the Free Methodist Church. Alice helped him pastor the Free Methodist Church, Prairie View Community Church, Hicks Chapel, Timber Creek Friends Church and helped establish the Arkansas City Friends Church. She also had worked at the Arkansas City Memorial Hospital as a transcriptionist. Alice was a member of the CDO Club and was past president of the Credit Women Breakfast Club. Survivors include her husband, Lewis of the home; four daughters, Sharon Hasselbring of Newkirk, Andrea Smith of San Antonio, TX, Marcia Shrope and Charlene Kester both of Arkansas City, KS; 12 grandchildren and 23 great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents and one sister, Isabel Pruett. A memorial has been established for Hospice, Inc. Contributions may be given through the funeral home. Rindt-Erdman Funeral Home of Arkansas City was in charge of the arrangements. *********************************************************************** copyright USGenwb 2003 http://www.usgwarchives.net/ ***********************************************************************