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Helen A.M. Taipale 1925-2019

HOWLAND — Helen Anna Maria Taipale, 93, of Howland, passed away Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019, at Shepherd of the Valley.

She was born Jan. 13, 1925, in Warren, the daughter of the late Taivo and Elizabeth Pelanter Taipale.

Helen was a graduate of Warren G. Harding High School and Suomi College. She was employed with the following companies: Farm Security Administration, Wean Engineering and Finnish Embassy in Ottawa, Canada. Helen was a Parish Worker at St. John Lutheran Church in Detroit, Mich., a Lutheran Missionary in Tanzania for 10 years and also worked at the Lutheran Church Headquarters in Chicago and New York, retiring in 1988. She was a member of St. Mark Lutheran Church.

She is survived by her four nephews and two nieces.

In addition to her parents, Helen was preceded in death by her brothers, Armas, Tarmo and Taito Taipale; sisters, Irene and Elizabeth; and a niece, Senia Taipale.

Services will be held at 11 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 14, 2019, at the Carl W. Hall Funeral Home, where the Rev. Donald P. Barnes will officiate. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service from 10 to 11 a.m. on Monday at the funeral home.

Interment will be in Oakwood Cemetery, Warren.

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