Funeral services for 92-year old Helen Lawson Anderson are Thursday, April 18, 2024 at 1:00 at Chamberlain McColley’s Funeral Home in Hot Springs.
Committal services will follow at Hillside Cemetery near Oelrichs, SD.
Visitation will precede the funeral at noon, also at Chamberlain McColley’s Funeral Home in Hot Springs
Memorials may be given to “Walk to End Alzheimer’s” Avantara Angels Team act.alz.org/walk Find a participant – Hazele Thompson
Helen Marie (Jobgen) Anderson was born Dec 26, 1931, to Glenola McClain Jobgen and Mathew Jobgen. She “Graduated to Heaven” on April 13, 2024, with family by her side at Avantara St Cloud nursing home in Rapid City, SD.
Helen was raised on the Jobgen homestead near Scenic, SD, the eldest of 6 children who lived through the great depression and experienced the hard times of WWII.
She attended grade school at the Jobgen School and her first 3 years of high school in Scenic, then attended her senior year of high school at the Catholic School in Rapid City. After graduating, she worked as a telephone operator in Rapid City.
Helen married Harold Lawson in April of 1954 and together they had 5 children. They lived in Wyoming and South Dakota in multiple areas of Wyoming and South Dakota before settling down at Interior, where they operated a dairy until 1976. In August of 1976. they moved to their final residence in Oelrichs, SD.
Harold passed away in Sept 1985 and Helen went to work at the State Nursing Home in Hot Springs, SD, where she met Edward (Bud) Anderson. They were married in 1986 and resided in her home in Oelrichs until Bud passed away in 2003.
Helen attended the United Methodist Church in Oelrichs and was active with the United Methodist Women’s group. Outside of church, she was a judge on the election board.
Helen enjoyed crocheting, reading, watching TV – especially soap operas, maintaining her yard and playing bunco. She also babysat several children over the years.
In October 2022, she went to live with her daughter, Hazele and son-in-law Kenneth Thompson. at their home in Rapid City. She enjoyed helping Hazele make quilts and loved watching Kenneth make the model of the British battlecruiser HMS Hood, which was sunk by the Bismark early in WWII.
In April 2023, Helen moved to Avantara St. Cloud nursing home in Rapid City.
She was preceded in death by her husbands Harold Lawson and Edward (Bud) Anderson; her mother and father; brother Donald Jobgen and sister Margaret Olic.
She is survived by her children Harriet Winslow of Jerome, ID; Hazele (Kenneth) Thompson of Rapid City, SD; Howard (Santa) Lawson of Johnson City, TX; Hedy Reitenbaugh of Hot Springs, SD; Heidi Segelke of Wheatland, WY; 16 grandchildren and many more great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren; sisters Louella (Hoppy) Hopfinger of Piedmont, SD; Marcella Hale of Hay Springs, NE; and Dorothy (Kenny) Aker of Sturgis, SD; and sister-in-law Joyce Jobgen of Rapid City, SD.
Chamberlain McColley’s Funeral Home in Hot Springs is in charge of arrangements for Helen Lawson Anderson.