CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - BLACK Helen L. Axelson

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HELEN L. BLACK

Mrs. Howard (Helen) Black, 65, a resident of the Randolph community for 
many years, passed away on Sunday, July 30, at Lake Hospital, Yellowstone 
National Park, Wyo. following a lingering illness.

Funeral services will be held on Thursday (today) at 2:00 p.m. at the 
Wausa Auditorium, Mr. Lloyd Wilson will officiate at the services. 
Internment will be in the Magnet cemetery under the direction of the 
Johnson Funeral Home.

Mr. and Mrs. Black reside in Wyoming during the park season where Mr. 
Black is employed as head cook at the hospital at Yellowstone National Park.

Helen Black, daughter of Charles and Bertha Johnson Axelson, was born 
July 30, 1907 at Oakland. She attended the Magnet Public School and 
Wayne State College. On December 22, 1928 she married Howard Black at 
Yankton, SD.

Mrs. Black taught in the Randolph, Belden and Wausa schools for 30 years. 
She resigned from teaching in March of 1971 due to ill health.

Survivors include her widow, Howard of Randolph; one daughter, Mrs. Yuvonne 
Barker of Waco, TX; two sons, James E. Black of Norfolk and Dennis E. Black 
of Kellogg, IA; three sisters, Mrs. Ted (Lena Mae) Gravers of Battle Creek, 
Mich, Mrs. Herbert (Ruth) Dowling of Wausa and Mrs. Carl (Lulu) Larson of 
Randolph; one brother Phillip Axelson of Oakland; 10 grandchildren and one 
great grandchild.