Helen Teter
Helen Teter
August 05, 1910 – December 14, 2010
Funeral Service: 10:00 a.m. Saturday December 18, 2010 at Carman Center – Mayflower Community, Grinnell
Interment: 2:00 p.m. Saturday December 18, 2010 at Greenfield Township Cemetery, Greenfield, Iowa
Helen V. Teter, 100, of Grinnell died December 14, 2010, at the Mayflower Community Health Care Center in Grinnell. Funeral services are scheduled for 10:00 a.m. Saturday, December 18, at the Carman Center at the Mayflower Community. Burial will be in the Greenfield Township Cemetery in Greenfield, Iowa. The family will greet friends prior to the service at the Carman Center. Memorial contributions may be directed to Grinnell United Methodist Church or Mayflower Community.
Helen was born August 5, 1910, in Audubon County, Iowa, the daughter of John and Dora Herron Alden. She was raised near Audubon then later moved to Stuart where she was a 1928 graduate of Stuart High School. She received both her BS and MS degrees at Drake University in Des Moines.
She taught rural school and was a supervisor in special education at Ringgold and Decatur County. She later taught in Audubon and Atlantic and moved to Grinnell in 1967 where she taught at Fairview Elementary School. She retired in 1976. She had been a resident of the Mayflower Community since 2003.
Helen was a member of the Grinnell United Methodist Church and United Methodist Women. She was also a member of Delta Kappa Gamma, Retired Poweshiek County Teachers Association, ISEA, NEA, and BPW Association. She was an avid reader and enjoyed sewing, ceramics, and traveling. Her travels took her throughout the United States including Alaska, Mexico, and Europe.
Survivors include two nephews and a niece, Gaylord Teter of Des Moines, Sharon Herrmann of Alamogordo, New Mexico, Gail Teter of Lebanon, Missouri; a great-nephew and niece, Steve and Marcia Teter and their children, John and Erin of Des Moines, and Debbie Slater of Des Moines, and many friends and other family members. She was preceded in death by her parents; two brothers, Henry and Clifton Teter; and a nephew, Gary Lee Teter.
Source: Smith Funeral Home
