Helen Jennings Pictures from 9 Who Care Awards January 28th 2012

This is Helen Jennings, Joe Winters and Beth Malicki January 28th 2012 at the 9 Who Care Jefferson Awards Banquet. Held at the Cedar Rapids Country Club.

Helen with the flower Kurt Sempf Manger-Creative Services Of KCRG-TV9 gave her to bring home. Love that flower pot. Also the plaque she received at the 9 Who Care. Mt Harmony Cemetery was her Selected Charity .so they received a check for 500.00 dollars..

The plaque Helen received.

Here are the pies I made the day of the interview .So Joe Winters here is your peach pie These pie tins I have used for 55 years

Clyde accepting the check for Mt Harmony Cemetery for 500.00 dollars

Yes she did receive the award for working with Mt Harmony Cemetery but also for helping other people find their families. One was Roger Hammond from Elkport,Iowa who was adopted out in 1951. He was the only one adopted from the children removed from the home. But she found 3 brothers and still looking for LaVern and Dorothy also known as Jean Essman. Graduated from Edgewood High School with the class of 1963. Anyone know of her where abouts? Also for the food she would fix and take to people when in need. She baked many pies for church events. Years ago baked beans and noodles were also special for church events.

Maybe people wonder how she got started getting donations for Mt Harmony Cemetery. She put a full MONEY report of the Cemetery in the Guttenberg Press. From there Gary Schroeder gave Clyde a check for 50.00 at Sears Station and then Joyce Kuehl sent a 100.00 check in the mail. That is all it took for Helen to keep going. Since she had done a Thein Family Book and many Thein's buried at Mt Harmony she sent out emails with the financial report going to be short of money for 2005. It keep her busy just recording all of the donations.,after 7 years she has 30,000 more than she started with plus over 4,000 in improvements. This inculdes the lots she sold also. Now she says if only interst would be a little better by 2013 that is when it going to hurt. She has been doing this for 52 years. She says I couldn't have accomplised what I did without the help of the people,many friends and her computer. There are so many nice people who have given of their time and money. Small rural cemeteries are in poor financial conditions and need more volunteers and donations. She says if you have a loved one buried in one of them find it in your heart to send that cemetery a donation. small or large it all helps. Work with joy,Dream from your heart, Share what you have, Love deeply, Thank GOD Always.

Jason & Katie Wiedemann Schwass with Helen jennings

What the table looked like.

My email is chjenn@alpinecom.net