Obituaries : Helen C. (Howe) Wiley

Helen C. (Howe) Wiley, age 96, passed away peacefully on Saturday, October 24, 2020 at the Keystone Nursing Care Center.  

Funeral Services will be held 10:30 AM, Saturday, October 31, 2020 at Salem United Methodist Church in Van Horne with Rev. Leonard Ranson officiating.  Visitation will be held from 9:30 AM until service time.  Masks and social distancing are suggested.  Interment will be in the Waltham Cemetery, near Elberon.  A memorial fund has been established.

Helen was born August 4, 1924 in Dysart to Everett and Alma (Stahr) Howe, and graduated from Elberon High School.  She met Ellsworth Wiley at a dance, and waited for him for 5 years, while he finished his military service.  The couple married on December 5, 1945 in Elberon.  

The couple farmed on Highway 21 near Elberon until moving to Irving in 1974.  Helen worked at the Belle Plaine Care Center in the laundry and as the activities director.  She was a member of the Elberon Methodist Church and the Ladies Auxiliary.  She loved to garden, raising both vegetables and flowers, and was an accomplished seamstress, sewing clothes and blankets for her grandchildren.

Helen is survived by her, son Tommy Wiley of Albuquerque, NM; daughter, Nancy (Vic) Koster of Atkins; grandchildren, Justin (Jacqueline) Koster of Ely, Jared (Justine) Koster of Blairstown, Megan (Trevor) Dursky of Atkins; 11 great-grandchildren; 1 great-great-grandson; 2 sisters, Zelda Andresen, Keystone, Linda (Tom) Lindgren, Cedar Rapids; brother, Allen (Linda) Howe, Cedar Rapids; sister-in-law Helen (Dave) Hydock of Tulsa, OK; and many nieces and nephews

She was preceded in death by her parents; and husband Ellsworth in 2015; brothers, Delbert, Gerald "Jerry", and Stanford Howe; and sisters, Thelma Hansen and Marjorie Barta-Dowd.

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