Helen Poh attended Corpus Christi Catholic school and graduated from Sturgeon Bay High School in 1942. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree at Marquette University's College of Nursing, graduating in 1946.
She worked as a registered nurse at Door County Memorial Hospital for a year, then married Russell B. G. Engel on June 14, 1947 at St. Joseph's Catholic Church. Helen then worked at St. Joseph's and St. Michael's hospitals in Milwaukee for about 40 years while raising her 13 children. She was a head nurse for many years.
Helen was a charter member of St. Eugene parish, Fox Point, Wis., where she volunteered for teaching CCD, Girl Scouts, and as a volunteer school nurse. She was devoted to her children and their families. She also enjoyed knitting, gardening, crossword puzzles and bingo.
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Aunt Holly - by Mel Jenssen, December 27, 2004
My Aunt Holly was always held in high esteem by my mother. ...[M]y mother ...had a wonderful intellect and was an excellent judge of character. My mother respected and admired Aunt Holly as a woman who did it all; a mother, a professional, a devoted wife, stolid, enduring, a rock. Thirteen kids, a cornucopia of pleasure and pain, a caregiver and empowerer who gave so much of herself selflessly to others.
My mother was always humbled by Aunt Holly (Saint Holly, she would sometimes say) and wished she could be more like her, don't we all, few actually are.
I didn't spend a lot of time with Aunt Holly in person but, since early childhood when we briefly lived in Milwaukee, I remembered her and she was in my thoughts often. I want to thank her for helping my mom.... She was a good friend to my mom. And I would like to thank her for the example she set.
When I think of Aunt Holly I see her at the sink or kitchen table or washing and folding clothes (laundry, endless mountains of laundry), always smoking a cigarette, shepherding the flock of kids around like a shop steward. Your mom always made sure Joey and/or Judy, who were closest in age to me, were close by to keep me company show me how to cope in your bewildering house of activity and commotion. With all she had to do she always made time to say some kind things to me and make me feel special and I guess that's one of the things that made her really special. She always thought about how the other person was doing. She seemed a well that never ran dry.
Her spirit and deeds live on and she will always be an inspiration to others when you need to reach down into your boots, roll up your sleeves and no matter how tired, sick, depressed or whatever you feel, you get up and do what needs to get done.
May she finally have the rest she deserves.
God Bless Aunt Holly.
She worked as a registered nurse at Door County Memorial Hospital for a year, then married Russell B. G. Engel on June 14, 1947 at St. Joseph's Catholic Church. Helen then worked at St. Joseph's and St. Michael's hospitals in Milwaukee for about 40 years while raising her 13 children. She was a head nurse for many years.
Helen was a charter member of St. Eugene parish, Fox Point, Wis., where she volunteered for teaching CCD, Girl Scouts, and as a volunteer school nurse. She was devoted to her children and their families. She also enjoyed knitting, gardening, crossword puzzles and bingo.
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Aunt Holly - by Mel Jenssen, December 27, 2004
My Aunt Holly was always held in high esteem by my mother. ...[M]y mother ...had a wonderful intellect and was an excellent judge of character. My mother respected and admired Aunt Holly as a woman who did it all; a mother, a professional, a devoted wife, stolid, enduring, a rock. Thirteen kids, a cornucopia of pleasure and pain, a caregiver and empowerer who gave so much of herself selflessly to others.
My mother was always humbled by Aunt Holly (Saint Holly, she would sometimes say) and wished she could be more like her, don't we all, few actually are.
I didn't spend a lot of time with Aunt Holly in person but, since early childhood when we briefly lived in Milwaukee, I remembered her and she was in my thoughts often. I want to thank her for helping my mom.... She was a good friend to my mom. And I would like to thank her for the example she set.
When I think of Aunt Holly I see her at the sink or kitchen table or washing and folding clothes (laundry, endless mountains of laundry), always smoking a cigarette, shepherding the flock of kids around like a shop steward. Your mom always made sure Joey and/or Judy, who were closest in age to me, were close by to keep me company show me how to cope in your bewildering house of activity and commotion. With all she had to do she always made time to say some kind things to me and make me feel special and I guess that's one of the things that made her really special. She always thought about how the other person was doing. She seemed a well that never ran dry.
Her spirit and deeds live on and she will always be an inspiration to others when you need to reach down into your boots, roll up your sleeves and no matter how tired, sick, depressed or whatever you feel, you get up and do what needs to get done.
May she finally have the rest she deserves.
God Bless Aunt Holly.
Helen Poh attended Corpus Christi Catholic school and graduated from Sturgeon Bay High School in 1942. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree at Marquette University's College of Nursing, graduating in 1946.
She worked as a registered nurse at Door County Memorial Hospital for a year, then married Russell B. G. Engel on June 14, 1947 at St. Joseph's Catholic Church. Helen then worked at St. Joseph's and St. Michael's hospitals in Milwaukee for about 40 years while raising her 13 children. She was a head nurse for many years.
Helen was a charter member of St. Eugene parish, Fox Point, Wis., where she volunteered for teaching CCD, Girl Scouts, and as a volunteer school nurse. She was devoted to her children and their families. She also enjoyed knitting, gardening, crossword puzzles and bingo.
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Aunt Holly - by Mel Jenssen, December 27, 2004
My Aunt Holly was always held in high esteem by my mother. ...[M]y mother ...had a wonderful intellect and was an excellent judge of character. My mother respected and admired Aunt Holly as a woman who did it all; a mother, a professional, a devoted wife, stolid, enduring, a rock. Thirteen kids, a cornucopia of pleasure and pain, a caregiver and empowerer who gave so much of herself selflessly to others.
My mother was always humbled by Aunt Holly (Saint Holly, she would sometimes say) and wished she could be more like her, don't we all, few actually are.
I didn't spend a lot of time with Aunt Holly in person but, since early childhood when we briefly lived in Milwaukee, I remembered her and she was in my thoughts often. I want to thank her for helping my mom.... She was a good friend to my mom. And I would like to thank her for the example she set.
When I think of Aunt Holly I see her at the sink or kitchen table or washing and folding clothes (laundry, endless mountains of laundry), always smoking a cigarette, shepherding the flock of kids around like a shop steward. Your mom always made sure Joey and/or Judy, who were closest in age to me, were close by to keep me company show me how to cope in your bewildering house of activity and commotion. With all she had to do she always made time to say some kind things to me and make me feel special and I guess that's one of the things that made her really special. She always thought about how the other person was doing. She seemed a well that never ran dry.
Her spirit and deeds live on and she will always be an inspiration to others when you need to reach down into your boots, roll up your sleeves and no matter how tired, sick, depressed or whatever you feel, you get up and do what needs to get done.
May she finally have the rest she deserves.
God Bless Aunt Holly.
She worked as a registered nurse at Door County Memorial Hospital for a year, then married Russell B. G. Engel on June 14, 1947 at St. Joseph's Catholic Church. Helen then worked at St. Joseph's and St. Michael's hospitals in Milwaukee for about 40 years while raising her 13 children. She was a head nurse for many years.
Helen was a charter member of St. Eugene parish, Fox Point, Wis., where she volunteered for teaching CCD, Girl Scouts, and as a volunteer school nurse. She was devoted to her children and their families. She also enjoyed knitting, gardening, crossword puzzles and bingo.
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Aunt Holly - by Mel Jenssen, December 27, 2004
My Aunt Holly was always held in high esteem by my mother. ...[M]y mother ...had a wonderful intellect and was an excellent judge of character. My mother respected and admired Aunt Holly as a woman who did it all; a mother, a professional, a devoted wife, stolid, enduring, a rock. Thirteen kids, a cornucopia of pleasure and pain, a caregiver and empowerer who gave so much of herself selflessly to others.
My mother was always humbled by Aunt Holly (Saint Holly, she would sometimes say) and wished she could be more like her, don't we all, few actually are.
I didn't spend a lot of time with Aunt Holly in person but, since early childhood when we briefly lived in Milwaukee, I remembered her and she was in my thoughts often. I want to thank her for helping my mom.... She was a good friend to my mom. And I would like to thank her for the example she set.
When I think of Aunt Holly I see her at the sink or kitchen table or washing and folding clothes (laundry, endless mountains of laundry), always smoking a cigarette, shepherding the flock of kids around like a shop steward. Your mom always made sure Joey and/or Judy, who were closest in age to me, were close by to keep me company show me how to cope in your bewildering house of activity and commotion. With all she had to do she always made time to say some kind things to me and make me feel special and I guess that's one of the things that made her really special. She always thought about how the other person was doing. She seemed a well that never ran dry.
Her spirit and deeds live on and she will always be an inspiration to others when you need to reach down into your boots, roll up your sleeves and no matter how tired, sick, depressed or whatever you feel, you get up and do what needs to get done.
May she finally have the rest she deserves.
God Bless Aunt Holly.
