Helga Theodora (Hanson) Nokleby

Helga Nokleby, of Montevideo, died on Saturday, January 17, 2004 at the Luther Haven Nursing Home in Montevideo at the age of 94.

Funeral services will be conducted on Wednesday, January 21, 2004 at 1:30 PM at Our Saviors Lutheran Church in Montevideo with Rev. Gregory Gabriel officiating. .  Interment will be in the Sunset Memorial Cemetery.

Visitation will be Tuesday afternoon and evening, with the family from 5 - 7 PM and with a prayer service at 6:30 PM at the Anderson Funeral Home in Montevideo.

Helga Theodora (Hanson) Nokleby was born March 9, 1909 in West Bank Township of Swift County, MN to Hartwick and Emma Mathilda “Tilly” (Carlson) Hanson.  Helga was baptized at West Bank Lutheran Church and confirmed at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Montevideo.  As a child, she moved with her parents from the Danvers, MN area. to Montevideo, where Helga attended  school.  When Helga was 10 years old, her mother died.  Her father later married Sigrid Stokke.  On August 26, 1934, Helga was united in marriage to Omer Nokleby at the Our Savior’s Lutheran Church parsonage.  After a 5 week wedding trip, they returned home to their farm, which is located 5 miles southwest of Montevideo in Lac Qui Parle County.  They lived on the farm for sixty-seven years before moving to Brookside Manor in Montevideo in November of 2000.  In January, 2002, they moved to the Luther Haven Nursing Home.  Helga was a wonderful homemaker and a loving wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother to her family.  She was active in church activities and the Chippewa County Historical Society until her health prevented her from participating.  She also enjoyed cooking, baking, playing cards and traveling.  They traveled throughout the U.S., took two trips to Norway and drove to Alaska in 1982.

Helga is survived by her husband, Omer; one son: Bruce Nokleby and his wife, Pat of Plymouth, MN; two grandsons: Mike Nokleby of Delano, MN and his fiancé, Terri McClellan  and two children, Meghan and Patrick McClellan and  James Nokleby and his wife Sue of Litchfield Park, AZ  and children, Carter Nokleby and Bailey, Cassidy and Sydney Mindeman: a half-sister, Eunice Addie of Keizer, Oregon: and a sister-in-law; Lorine Hanson of Montevideo.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Hartwick and Tilly Hanson, her step-mother Sigrid Hanson; a son, Robert Allen Nokleby, who died at birth; a half-brother, Walt Hanson; and step-sisters, Maggie Stokke and Jenny Rhondestvedt.