Helen Jane Aasgaard, 80, Lake Mills, Iowa

Published 12:00 am Monday, June 2, 2003

Helen Jane Aasgaard, age 80, Lake Mills, Iowa, passed away Friday, May 30, 2003, at the Lake Mills Care Center.

Funeral services will be held Tuesday, June 3, at 1:30 p.m. at the Salem Lutheran Church with the Rev. Kevin Mackey officiating. Visitation will be held today, June 2, from 5-8 p.m. at the Mittelstadt Funeral Home in Lake Mills, and one hour prior to services at the church. Inurnment will take place at Salem Lutheran Cemetery at a later date.

Helen Jane Aasgaard was born Oct. 19, 1922, in Thompson, Iowa, to John and Gertrude (Nelson) Helgeson. She graduated from the Lake Mills High School in 1941. After graduating, she worked for attorney Clifford Sheldon who recommended her for a job at the State Capitol Building in Des Moines, Iowa.

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Helen married John David Aasgaard on Dec. 24, 1943, at Salem Lutheran Church in Lake Mills. They spent the first years of their marriage in Foxboro, Mass., where John attended the University of Boston and Helen was employed at a defense plant. They returned to Lake Mills in 1946 and lived there all their lives. After her children were grown, she worked for her brother-in-law, Gordon Aasgaard, at the Graphic Publishing Co.

Helen enjoyed entertaining, baking, gardening and traveling. She took great pride in her children and her granddaughters. She was blessed with many friends, some of them lifelong friendships. Her friends and her family enjoyed and will greatly miss her sense of humor.

Helen is survived by a son, Richard Aasgaard and wife Karen of Lake Mills; a daughter, Wendy Johnson and husband Gary Gaustad of Apple Valley, Minn.; three granddaughters: Beth Johnson of Roseville, Minn., Aimee Aasgaard of Lake Mills, and Cassie Aasgaard of Austin; a brother, Richard Helgeson and wife Pat of Sun City West, Ariz.; sister-in-law, Harriet Helgeson of Albert Lea; and several nieces, nephews and cousins.

Helen was preceded in death by her parents; husband, John; brother, Milton; and a brother in infancy, Ivan.