Funeral services for Helen Louise Thiesing will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, May 3, 2017, at the Zion Lutheran Church with Pastor Aaron Wagner officiating. Interment will be in the Zion Lutheran Cemetery under the direction of Marshall Funeral Home of Alva.

Helen Louise Thiesing, daughter of the late Herbert Earnest and Agnes Louise Ida (Meyer) Petermann, was born March 8, 1930, just south of Alva in Woods County, Oklahoma, and passed away April 29, 2017, at Alva, Oklahoma, at the age of 87 years, 1 month and 21 days.

After Helen graduated from Alva High School, she attended Northwestern Oklahoma...