Helen Chittick

Helen Chittick
September 23, 1924 - April 07, 2012
Sigourney, Iowa
Visitation: 5-8 PM April 12, 2012 at Powell Funeral Home & Cremation Service, North English, IA
Graveside Service: Graveside Service at a Later Date , at South English Cemetery
Interment: , at South English Cemetery, South English, Iowa
Helen "Jean" Chittick, age 87, died on Saturday, April 7, 2012, at the Solon Nursing Care Center in Solon. A visitation will be held at the Powell Funeral Home in North English on Thursday, April12, 2012 from 5-8 PM. Family Graveside services will be held at the South English Cemetery at a later date. In lieu of flowers, donations may be to a memorial in Jean's name or to Hospice of Mercy (Cedar Rapids). Messages and tributes may be left at www.powellfuneralhomes.com under obituaries. Jean Chittick was born on September 23, 1924, in South English, Iowa to Elmer and Velda Niess Evans. She graduated from South English High School and married Lester Chittick on June 28, 1943 in Missouri. Jean had many vocations during her lifetime such as truck driving and clerking at a grocery store while living her first 40 plus years of her life in South English. Later in Sigourney, she was a bank teller and Keokuk County Treasury Clerk until her retirement. Jean loved to camp, fish and travel with her husband of 57 years. In the last few years she enjoyed life with a very special and caring friend, Sy O'Rielly. She will be mostly remembered as a loving and caring mother, grandmother, great grandmother and friend. She became a resident of the Solon Nursing Care Center in September 2008. Jean is survived by her son Tom (Mary) Chittick of Atkins, daughter Ann (Charlie) Malina of Morristown, Tennessee, four grandchildren: Jeff (Holly) Chittick, Jay (Dawn) Chittick, Brian (Amy) Ingram and Shelley Dunn, and great grandchildren: Greg, Jenna, Taylor and Dane Chittick, Jordan, Alexa and Cecilia Ingram, McKenna Crumbaugh and Quinn Dunn. Jean was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Lester in October 2000 and a dear companion, Sy O'Reilly. The family would like to acknowledge the loving staff at the Solon Nursing Care Center who treated Jean like family and Cedar Rapids Hospice of Mercy.