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SPRAGUEVILLE - Florence Helmle, 96         
        
        
        
By:    February 23, 2004    
        
        
        

SPRAGUEVILLE - Florence Helmle, 96, of Spragueville, died Saturday at the Bluff Terrace Nursing Facility, Clinton.  A funeral Mass will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Preston, with the Rev. Don Plamondon officiating. Burial will be in the St. Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery, Springbrook. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Preston. The Miller-Law-Jones Funeral Home, Preston, is in charge of arrangements. She was born March 13, 1907, in Springbrook to John P. and Anna Entringer Michels. She married Leo Helmle on Nov. 8, 1927, in Bellevue. He died in 1983. The couple operated the general store in Spragueville from 1929 to 1946.  She was a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church, Preston, and the Elmer H. Brown American Legion Auxiliary Post 590.  Survivors include a son, Larry (Donna) Helmle of Spragueville; 11 grandchildren; 27 great- grandchildren; and eight great-great-grandchildren.  She was preceded in death by her husband, one daughter, her parents and 13 brothers and sisters. Death Date: Feb. 21, 2004     
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