Menno Helmuth

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Celebration of life services for Menno Helmuth 88, of Kalona is Sunday, August 22, 2010 at 2:00PM at the East Union Mennonite Church in rural Kalona with Pastors Floyd Helmuth and Lloyd Helmuth officiating. Burial will follow in the East Union Cemetery. Visitation will be held Saturday, August 21 from 4-7PM at the Peterseim Funeral Home in Kalona. A memorial fund for Pleasantview Home and East Union Mennonite Church has been established. Menno Helmuth died Thursday, Aug. 19 at Pleasantview Home following a lingering illness.

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Menno Helmuth was born March 31, 1922 in Kalona, Iowa the son of Chris I. and Mary (Miller) Helmuth. He attended East Lincoln Rural School and was a member of East Union Mennonite Church. He was united in marriage to Dorothy E. Kreider at the Lower Deer Creek Mennonite Church on February 11, 1951. Early in his life Menno worked at Gingerich Implement and as an auto mechanic in Iowa City.   He was a mechanic at Farmer's Supply Sales, Inc in Kalona for 33 years from 1957 a�" 1990.

Menno enjoyed bowling in league and repaired balers in his retirement.

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Survivors include his wife Dorothy of Kalona, one brother, Dan (Rita) Helmuth of Iowa City two sisters, Lydia (Russell) Gnagey of Kalona and Martha Schrock of Arvada, CO, and a number of nieces and nephews.

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