Helen O. Wolf, 90

Helen O. Wolf, 90, passed away peacefully after a bout with a very rare lymphoma on July 28, 2013, at Life Care of Sandpoint, Sandpoint, Idaho.

Services will be held on Thursday, Aug. 1 at 7 p.m. at the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Bonners Ferry, Idaho.

Helen was born in Port Mitchell, Noble County, Ind., on Sept. 1, 1922.

She grew up with a brother, two sisters, and a foster brother.

Helen graduated from Cromwell High School in 1941. She attended nursing school at Greenville, Tenn., and graduated from the Chicago School of Nursing.

In 1944 she married Delbert Wolf at Camp Wolters, Palo Pinto County, Texas, where Delbert worked as a dental technician and their first son, John, was born. There Helen found employment at the camp veterinarian office.

After V.E. Day they were sent to Fort Chaffee in Arkansas and Delbert was retrained in counseling to aid in mustering troops out of the service. They lived in nearby Fort Smith, Ark., until they were sent back to Camp Wolters where Delbert was discharged.

They left Texas and went back to Indiana where their families resided. There Helen found work at Lucky Hospital in Wolf Lake, Ind. There she had a second son, James. After a short convalescence she went back to nursing, working in hospitals and clinics in the area and sometimes working at factories.

In 1966 Delbert and Helen decided to remove to North Idaho, where Helen went to work at Boundary Community Hospital. Helen worked in various capacities: Ward clerk, the nursery, aid work, insurance clerk and admissions.

In 1981 Helen suffered a heart attack and Dr. Edwards ordered her to retire. They then moved to south central Missouri and raised a few calves.

After Delbert’s death in 1997 she moved to Willow Springs and then followed son John and his wife Cindy back to Pocatello, Idaho, in 2006. In 2008 she returned to Bonners Ferry to be close to her friends and family.

Helen is survived by her sons, James of New Haven, Ind., and John of Bonners Ferry. She has six grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.

Family and friends are invited to sign Helen’s book at www.bonnersferryfuneralhome.com Arrangements are entrusted to the care of Bonners Ferry Funeral Home.