Helen Quisberg

Helen E. Quisberg, 89, died March 10, 2003, in a Bismarck care center. Services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Missouri Slope Lutheran Care Center, Bismarck, with the Rev. Dale Nabben officiating. A second service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at St. John Lutheran Church, Embden, with the Rev. John Flaa officiating.

There will be no visitation.

Helen Eleanor Helgeson was born Nov. 12, 1913, north of Taylor, N.D., in Stark County, to Gilbert T. and Ida Gladys (Simons) Helgeson. She grew up and received her education at Taylor. At the age of 17, Helen moved to Grandin/Horace to help families with housekeeping. She married Milo (Mike) Bullis on May 25, 1935, at Taylor. They spent the first seven years of their marriage living with Mike's parents 40 miles southwest of Fargo, where Helen did cooking and baking. Mike and Helen moved to Chaffee, where Helen worked as a clerk in a mercantile store. Mike died in Fargo in 1961.

Helen married Russel Quisberg, of Embden, on April 14, 1964. They farmed near Embden for 27 years, retiring in 1976. Russel died April 27, 1991. Helen moved to Casselton for a year, and then to West Fargo in 1992. She moved to Bismarck in 1995 to be close to her sister, Gladys, and family.

Helen was a member of St. John Lutheran Church in Embden. She loved to quilt, and as a result of many quilting bees, generously helped in the donation of quilts to the church for distribution to needy families. She enjoyed growing flowers, gardening, dancing, crocheting and doing craftwork.

Helen will be greatly missed by those who survive her, including the families of her four stepdaughters and sons-in-law, Arlis and LeRoy Pfingsten, Durbin, Eileen and Lyle Schultz, Embden, Diane and Eugene Walton, Felton, Minn., and Valerie and Lonnie Scharbow, Enderlin; 10 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; one sister, Elaine Lauer, Wisconsin; one sister-in-law, Adeline Helgeson, Porterville, Calif.; five special nephews, including Eddie Lee Breum, Laurel, Mont., Kenneth Stoxen, Bismarck, Michael Helgeson, Porterville, Robert Helgeson, The Dalles, Ore., and Richard Helgeson, Seattle; five special nieces, Georgia Kingsbury, Bismarck, Sharon Gillman, The Dalles, Sylvia Stoxen, Bismarck, Jane Fergeson, San Antonio, Texas, and Marti Knutson, Bismarck; and many great- and great-great-nieces and nephews.

Helen was preceded in death by her parents; her two husbands; a step-granddaughter, Darcy; two sisters, Caroline Helgeson and Gladys Stoxen-Wintermeyer; and four brothers, Charles, Kenneth, Herman and George.

The family requests memorials be given to St. John Lutheran Church, 1472 40th St. S.E., Embden, N.D. 58079. (Eastgate Funeral Service, Bismarck)