Helen K. Miske

Helen K. Miske Lansing Age 90, died peacefully on Tuesday, April 27, 2010. Helen was born in Woodbury, Michigan on August 16, 1919, the first daughter and fifth child of thirteen children born to Paul G. and Florence E. (Jordan) Brodbeck. Helen graduated from Woodland High School in 1937 and then received her teaching degree two years later from Kalamazoo College. She taught for two years in a one-room school house before marrying her high school sweetheart, Gailen Miske, in 1941. They celebrated over 53 years of marital bliss before he preceded her in death in 1995. Helen was a teacher assistant at Beekman Center for 19 years. She was active for many years with church activities, square dancing, gardening, and quilting. Helen made a quilt for each of her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren; plus many, many quilts for her church. She also loved to crochet and made 34 prayer shawls last year. Helen was preceded in death by her parents, 5 brothers, 2 sisters-in-law and her husband. Surviving are her children, Joyce (Dale) Rothenberger of Lansing, Gerry (Cynthia) Miske of Elizabethtown, Kentucky and Kathy (Steve) Glew of DeWitt, Michigan; seven grandchildren; and fifteen great-grandchildren. Also surviving are 4 sisters, 2 brothers, 4 sisters-in-law and 2 brothers-in-law. The funeral service will be held at 11:30 a.m. Monday, May 3, 2010 at Bethlehem Lutheran Church. Interment will follow in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. Sunday at the Estes-Leadley Greater Lansing Chapel. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made in memory of Helen to Bethlehem Lutheran Church, 549 E. Mt. Hope Ave., Lansing, MI 48910 or Hospice of Lansing, Inc., 4052 Legacy Pkwy., Suite 200, Lansing, MI 48911. A special thank-you to the wonderful caring staff at Grandhaven Living Center and Hospice of Lansing.