IN  THE  BEGINNING

                                    My Grandparents

                                  George and Ida Helle

Granddad was born on a farm in Illinois, as a young man he found he had a talent for playing the fiddle. While he could not read music, his talent was a main source of income earned at barn dances.

As a young boy his Dad got involved with a sawmill, one day when the sawyer failed to show up,George tried his hand at sawing.

To this day it is truthfully said . If you listen, you can hear the whine of a chain saw and know those Helle Boys have not found their way out the woods yet. note# 2006 at the age of 71 I bought my 1st portable sawmill

Grandmother was a very special lady. THIRTEEN children, when she left this world she had FORTY-SIX grandchildren and NINTY-FOUR great-grandchildren !

As my cousin Margail said" she had a way of making each grandchild feel like they were "the special one".

Dad ( Donald Lee Helle ) and my self. Picture taken 1948-1949

b, 1908

d. 1961

buried Tiskilwa, IL

MT Bloom Cemitary

Dad was divorced from my Mother in 1939. In 1940 he remarried, from this marriage he had six children

       Marilyn....................b 1941

       Kenneth...................b 1943..............d. 31 May 1990

       Terry.......................b 1945

       Donna......................b 1949

       Beverly....................b 1951

       JIM..........................b 1948

note: Marilyn, Terry, and Donna still live in or near Princeton IL

note: The tune now playing was one of Dads favorites ( Old Shep )

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George Helle

b. 1873

d. 1943

buried Cuba, IL

Sinnett Chapel Cemetery

 

Ida Helle                             

b. 1878

d. 1971

buried Cuba, IL

Sinnett Chapel Cemetery