We are saddened to inform you that Helen (Hilpert) Waltz ’49 passed away on January 15, 2018 at her longtime residence in Tempe, AZ.

At Wesleyan, Helen met and later married James E. Waltz, Jr. They lived in Jacksonville, IL for a year and then Joliet, IL where she had her two boys before moving to Tempe, AZ permanently in 1965.

Over the years she spent a year teaching grades 1-5 in the same classroom in Jacksonville, worked as a chemist for Spreckles Sugar Co., a bookkeeper for Sullbrook Water Treatment Service, started and ran a wreath-making business called the Pod Patch and was an avid Shaklee Distributor.

Her interests included playing the piano, sewing, knitting, travel, church and spending time with friends and family.

Read her full obituary here.