Helen was my great aunt--my mother's father's baby sister. She was a wonderful, kindhearted, funny woman with a joyous laugh.


Helen Schlindwein Boling, 101, went home to be with the Lord on July 21, 2008. She was born April 28, 1907 in Kewanee, Illinoise the youngest of nine children. She married Clarence Boling on July 8, 1930 and he preceded her in death July 28, 1999. Mrs. Boling operated a beauty shop for many years in Kewanee and later worked in the offices of the Kewanee Boiler Company, Hyster Trailer Company and Boss Manufacturing. After they retired they moved to Mesa, Arizona. She moved to Big Spring, Texas on October 1, 1999 after the death of her husband of 69 years.

A memorial celebration of her life will be held at 10:00 AM Thursday July 24, 2008 at Myers & Smith Chapel in Big Spring, Texas. Her ashes will be interred beside her husband in Kewanee, Illinois at a later date.

She is survived by a daughter Marianne DePauw of Gilbert, Arizona; three grandsons and their wives Jim and Tammy Newsom DePauw of Big Spring; David and Nicole DePauw of Chandler, Arizona; Steve DePauw and Rebecca Litz of St. Charles, Illinois. Her five great grandchildren include Darby DePauw of Big Spring; Ciera Grace DePauw of Durango, Colorado; Bryan and Dylan DePauw of Chandler, Arizona and Kyle Stambaugh of Avondale, Arizona. She is also survived by a special nephew Jim Schlindwein of Sanibel, Florida; a special niece Marjorie Mason of California; a life-long friend, who is also 101, Geneva Williams of Arizona, and special friends Jim and Georgie Newsom of Big Spring.

If she ever met you you were considered her friend. She had a catch phrase while she lived in Big Spring, "Everybody is so good to me!" She leaves behind scores of friends in Illinois, Arizona and Texas.

In lieu of flowers the family suggests memorials to Trinity Baptist Church Building Fund 810 E. 11th Place Big Spring, Texas 79720.

Inurnment 11 Sep 2009

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Pleasant View, South Pleasant View and Mt Olivet Cemeteries are all in one cemetery complex. Clarence and Helen Schlindwein Boling were originally thought to be buried at Mt Olivet but thanks go out to K. Roberts for locating them at South Pleasant View Cemetery.
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