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Note: Her father's Will left everything to his wife, Francis, with $1.00 going to Helena and her sisters, Ida and Marie, and to her brothers, August, Gustav, Albert, Herman, & Emil. Upon his wife's death, everything was to be split equally between the children.
Baptism Record: Immanuel Lutheran Church of Pilot Knob, Missouri, May 12, 1861, Caroline Wilhelmina Gockel, Pages 4 & 5. Confirmation Record: Immanuel Lutheran Church of Pilot Knob, Missouri, Helena Gockel, confirmation on Palm Sunday, March 1874.
Cemetery Record: St. John Cemetery, 2901 Nameoki Road, Granite City, Illinois 62040, Helen Ameling, died March 25, 1933, age 71 yrs, 11 Mos. 18 days, cause Pneumonia, Mercer Undertaker, Buried March 29, 1933, Sec. 8, Lot 490, Gr. 4. Funeral Director: Mercer Mortuary, 1416 Niedringhaus, Granite City, IL 62040, died March 25, 1933 (71 yrs. old) of Bronchial Pneumonia.
In the April 15 issue of the Enterprise Kronikle, it lists: Pilot Knob - Mr. Amelung and family have moved into the Gockel residence.
Helena passed away on March 25, 1933 in Illinois, just four (4) days short of her 72nd birthday, and Henry later married Dixie who is listed as his widow in his obituary.
Iron County Register Newspaper, Ironton, Missouri, April 6, 1933, Page 2, Helena Amelung Obituary. MRS. HENRY J. AMELUNG (Granite City, Ills. Press-Record)
For the first time in the fifty years of their married life, Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Amelung were separated Saturday evening. At 7:30 o'clock death called Mrs. Amelung and she passed quietly and peacefully to her last sleep.
She had been ill but a short time and had been removed from her home at 2232 Washington Avenue to St. Elizabeth's Hospital less than an hour before her death. At noon she had prepared the family meal. Had she lived until tomorrow, the day of her funeral, she would have been 72 years old. Mrs. Amelung was a resident of this city for the past 28 years, all of which time she was an active worker in the Concordia Lutheran Church and a member of the Ladies' Aid and Sewing Circle. Last September she and her husband celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary and a special church service was held in their honor.
The funeral services will be conducted at two o'clock tomorrow afternoon from the Concordia Lutheran Church with the pastor, Rev. Paul Gross, officiating. Until 1:45 o'clock the remains will lie in state at the Mercer Funeral Home for mourners to pay their last respects.
Internment will be made in St. John's Cemetery and pallbearers will be L. W. Krieger, Martin Knecht, Fred Winker, Henry Halbe, F. W. Albers and Henry Kahle.
Beside her husband, Mrs. Amelung is survived by six children. They are: Edwin, Walter and Elmer Amelung all of this city; Alfred H. Amelung of Oklahoma City; Mrs. Lydia Ranft of Overland, Mo., and Mrs. Laura Hecht of Coral Gables, Fla. They will be here for the funeral tomorrow. Mrs. Hecht, who lives the farthest away arriving in the morning.
She is also survived by two sisters, Mrs. John Brown of Peekskill, New York, Mrs. Rev. Martin Mangelsdorf of Orchard Farm, Mo., two brothers, Gustave and Herman Gockel of Cleveland, Ohio, and thirteen grandchildren.
Mr. and Mrs. Amelung were married September 3, 1882, in Pilot Knob, Mo. The ceremony was performed by Rev. H. Broemer, pastor of the Lutheran church there.
After living in that community for a few years they moved to St. Louis and in 1889 Mr. Amelung started to work for the Granite City Steel Company here. He commuted back and forth until 1905 when he sought to avoid the trip by renting a home in this city. His search for a residence culminated in the purchase of his present home at 2232 Washington Avenue, where he has lived since.
On September 6, last, the congregation of Concordia Lutheran Church and friends of the aged couple celebrated their Golden Wedding anniversary with a special church service. About 300 attended, including their children and grandchildren.
Rev. O. Rothe, pastor, delivered the principal address and administered the church benediction to them. He chose for his theme Joshua's statement in the Bible, "As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." Rev. Martin Mangelsdorf, brother-in-law of Mrs. Amelung, assisted in the services.
Still active and alert at that time the elderly couple walked hand in hand up the platform to the alter and received the benediction with hands clasped together. The picture, as one looked upon them included their children and their children's children as they sat quietly and attentively in the front of the church.
Today, Mr. Amelung is still active, still straight and sturdy, but the loss of his life's companion has bowed his head in deep grief.
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