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- Helen Roene Strey, 87, of Gering died Tuesday, July 8, 2008, at Lakeside Hospital in Omaha, Neb.
Services will be held at 10 a.m., Monday, July 14, at the Mitchell Federated Church with Dr. Charles H. Richardson officiating. Interment will be at Mitchell City Cemetery.
Friends may come to call on Sunday, July 13, at Jones Mortuary in Mitchell from 12 to 6 p.m.
A memorial has been established to the church. Condolences may be left at www.jonesmor@charterinternet.com and will be forwarded to the family.
Helen was born on April 4, 1921 in Lake Charles, La. to Ira and Bertha (Dugan) Reed. She attended high school in Mitchell, where she graduated in 1939. She married William "Bill" Strey in Mitchell in June of 1940.
She was an active member in the Mitchell Federated Church where she was an Elder and served in many different capacities throughout the life of the church where she was a member of the choir for 58 years.
Helen was noted for being a poet and a composer and won numerous awards throughout the years for her poems and her songs and was the past State Chairman of Writers for the National League of American Pen Women and past State Chairman of Writers in NLAPW. She was also a member of the Cottner College Board in Lincoln, past president of Chapter E.U. of P.E.O. and past Worthy Matron of Eastern Star.
She was a beloved mother, grandmother, great grandmother, and great-great grandmother who loved spending time with her family and will be sadly missed but always remembered. Aside from her family, she loved the children at the Gering Middle School where she served as a foster grandmother for 7 years.
Survivors include her daughter, Dee (Gene) Miller of Omaha and their children Shawn (Maureen) Miller and Jodi (Brad) Holen; son, Ken (Sandy) Strey of Gering and their children Kelly (Tammy) Strey, Shelley (Tom) Rowlee and Shannon (Kelly) Brunner; 13 great-grandchildren; four great-great grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.
Her husband William "Bill" Strey, brother Roland Reed, sister-in-law Lillian Reed, and brother and sister-in-law Roy and Earla Ummel preceded her in death.
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