Name: Welch, Helen (Hodge) Balzer
Burial Date: 1984, 07/28
Age at Death: 75
Plot Location: 767 E
Notes: wife of Claude Austin/Ernest

WICHITA – Helen Hodge Balzer, 75, died July 26, 1984, at Wesley Medical Center, Wichita. Born Helen Hodge Aug. 4, 1908, at Sterling, she married Ernest Balzer. He preceded her in death. She was a retired high school English teacher and had been a former Hutchinson area resident.

Survivors: two nieces, both of Wichita, sister-in-law, Doris Hodge, Hutchinson.

Funeral will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at First United Methodist Church Chapel, Wichita; the Rev. Leonard S. Cowan. Graveside service will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Sterling Cemetery. Memorials to First United Methodist Church, Wichita, Wichita Hospice or American Cancer Society. Arrangements by Downing-Lahey Mortuary, Wichita.

Birth:	Aug. 4, 1908
Death:	Jul. 26, 1984
Age 75Family links: Spouse: Claude Austin Welch (1908 – 1962)
Burial: Sterling Cemetery Sterling Rice County Kansas, USA Plot: 767 E
Created by: Lawcas Record added: Feb 10, 2013 Find A Grave Memorial# 104945760