Helen Catherine Barta

Helen Barta, daughter of Frank and Francis (Helman) Dolezal, was born September 27, 1911 on a farm near Bruno, Nebraska. She attended District 28 Country School in Bruno and graduated from Bruno High School in 1924. On March 17, 1936, she was united in marriage to Victor Barta at the St. Anthony’s Catholic Church in Bruno, Nebraska. They became parents of five daughters; Joyce, Janice, Judi, Jacki, and Jerri. She and her husband Victor farmed in Linwood and Mead, Nebraska areas before retiring to Persia, Iowa in 1974, where they were members of St. James in Mead, Nebraska and St. Mary Our Lady of Fatima in Portsmouth, Iowa.
Helen was an excellent cook and gardener, homemaker, and did beautiful embroidery and sewing. She hand embroidered tea towels until the age of 103 for Heartland Family Service of Omaha to be auctioned off at their yearly fund-raising benefit. The embroidered towels were also given to all family members and many are still in use.
In April of 2015, Helen went to live at the St. Joseph’s Villa in David City, Nebraska where she passed away on Wednesday, December 28, 2016 attaining the age of one hundred and five years, three months, one day. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband of sixty years Victor; son-in-law George Abbott; grandsons Tim Feekin and Gregory Handbury; great grandson Zach Blowers; four brothers and two sisters.
She leaves behind her grieving family of Joyce and her husband Wally Polak of Bellevue, Nebraska; Janice and her husband Duane Blowers of Fremont, Nebraska; Judi and her husband Don Feekin of Papillion, Nebraska; Jacki Feige of La Vista, Nebraska; Jerri and her husband Max Handbury of Persia, Iowa; twenty-two grandchildren; thirty-eight great grandchildren; one great-great grandchild; many nieces and nephews; and friends.