Rose Plock

Rose Ellen Plock, 78, of Deshler, died Friday, at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Lincoln.

Rose was born to Carl and Erna (Eilers) Hinz on Sept. 9, 1942, on the family farm near Nora. Rose attended country school, Nelson Grade School and graduated from Ruskin High School in 1960.

After graduation, she moved to Wichita Falls, Texas. She worked as a

carhop, where she met and married her husband of 22 years, John Leonard Helgeson. The union was blessed with four children. The family moved to Minnesota and Nebraska. Rose worked at Hoffman’s packing rice, a local locker plant, and at Reinke’s as a welder...