family.
She has fond memories of Christ-
mas with her husband and sons.
“I’d visit him,” Helen said, “then walk to “We’d wrap little presents a week
the other side of the hospital floor, and visit ahead,” she said. “We were a happy
the two babies. Two! How did I ever manage little family.”
that?”
One of the babies came home, then another. Coming home
Helen indicated she and Eugene
“Where were we going to put another one,”
visited
some family in Minnesota,
Helen said she thought, “I can’t put him in the
and eventually made their home in
woodshed!”
She said she just dug in and worked through Dassel.
These days, she’s content in her
it all. “We made it fine,” she said, “no fool-
own
apartment. She enjoys it when
ing.”
Eventually, the young family moved to Mon- her nephew, Kenneth, who also lives
tana, where they rented a home, and the boys in the building, comes to visit. He’s
relatively young, though – only 95.
attended country school.
She said her son, Tom, had special needs, but “He’s on his own,” she insisted.
“I’m good at doing nothing. I look
got on the bus for school just like his brother.
“Tom was proud to carry a lunch box just out the window, I enjoy watching
the lake,” she said.
like Teddy,” she recalled.
Helen attributes her joyful life
Helen said she was “happy as an old goose”
and longevity to a higher source.
while raising her family.
“It’s all been God’s leading – I
She remembers needing to stock four gal-
depend
on Him,” she said. “I didn’t
lons of milk every week while the twins were
climb
any
mountaintop on my
growing up.
Helen said she would skim the cream off own.”
the top of the milk, and Tom would sit with a
paddle and crock, and whip up butter for the
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