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Helen M BAGGE

Female 1921 - 2015  (94 years)


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  • Name Helen M BAGGE 
    Birth 23 Jan 1921  Traill County, North Dakota Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Death 18 May 2015  Cook County, Illinois Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • Listed in the 1930 census. Not mentioned in her half-sister Shirley’s obit. Not listed with the rest of her family in Bingham Twp in the 1940 census. After her mother’s death she apparently moved to Illinois.

      In the 1940 census, she was the 19 year-old Helen Bagge who was a student nurse at the Evanston Hospital in Evanston, Cook County, Illinois. She had been born in North Dakota and in 1935 she lived in St. Charles in Kane County, Illinois.

      As Helen Powers, she survived her sister Beverly who died in 2013.

      Helen B. Powers, 94, died Monday, May 18, 2015. Born on January 23, 1921, in Fargo, North Dakota, Helen later moved to St. Charles, Illinois, where she met her late husband, Robert T. Powers. They were high school and college sweethearts and married in 1943. They spent 54 happy years together until his death in 1998. As she began to lose her memory in 2003, Helen joined the Rush University Memory and Aging Project, hoping to benefit Alzheimer's research. She will be remembered as a loving mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and friend. She is survived by her daughter, Elizabeth Campbell of Wilmette; daughter, Susan Powers of Chicago, son, Robert Powers of Sedona, AZ, four grandchildren, Elisabeth Campbell Pudik, John Scott Campbell, Jessica Powers and Kristen Ehrlich and three great-grandchildren, Samuel, Lauren and Jane Pudik. Funeral services and interment are private.
    Person ID I1665  Don Carlson's Tree
    Last Modified 13 Mar 2023 

    Father Edwin Louis BAGGE,   b. 4 May 1894, Roselle, Cook and Dupage Counties, Illinois Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Jan 1948, Tucson, Pima County, Arizona Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 53 years) 
    Mother Lydia T SWENSON,   b. 22 May 1895, Traill County, North Dakota Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Jan 1932, Traill County, North Dakota Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 36 years) 
    Marriage 13 Dec 1919  Clay County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F1196  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Robert Throop POWERS,   b. 27 Mar 1921, Brookline, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Feb 1998, Scottsdale, Arizona Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years) 
    Marriage 31 Jul 1943  St. Charles, Kane County, Illinois Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F1198  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 13 Mar 2023