Standard-Examiner, 03/07/10

CLEARFIELD, UT / PRESTON, ID – Our loving wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother passed away peacefully on Thursday, March 4, 2010. She was born June 12, 1928 to Clarence K. and Vivian Crossley Henning, the first of three daughters. Jennie graduated from Bear Lake High School in 1945 

While living in Ogden, she met the love of her life and after a whirl wind courtship of three short weeks, she married Evan B. Hellstrom, on November 18, 1949. Their marriage was solemnized in the Logan LDS temple on September 15, 1952. 

Jennie worked at Defense Depot Ogden for over 40 years while raising 10 children, retiring in November of 1989. Evan and Jennie enjoyed square dancing together every weekend, a brief escape from the demands of raising their 10 children. Jennie did genealogy work for many years. She loved to read, play board games, crossword and jigsaw puzzles. Jennie was a member of “no name club” of women who have gotten together each month for more than 50 years: Vaunda, Mavis, Rae, Maxine, Glenda, and Rhea. 

Jennie had been picking huckleberries every summer since she was eight years old. She trained Evan and multiple generations how to find and pick a huckleberry, creating an annual family tradition. 

She is survived by her loving husband Evan of 60 years, her sister, Joan (Gordon) Sparks, brother-in-law Houston Dee Jenkins, two sisters-in-law, Dal Marr Hellstrom and Leora Hellstrom, and her 10 children: Shelley (Darrell) Miles, Roxanne Froerer,Sandra (Michael) Moss, Jeffery (Jill) Hellstrom, Fred( Laurie) Hellstrom, April Palmer, Kim (Leah) Hellstrom, Cindy Hellstrom, Jennilyn (Russell) Wilson, David Hellstrom. She has 31 grandchildren, 40 great-grandchildren and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins. 

Jennie was preceded in death by her parents and her sister Jacquelyn Henning Jenkins. 

“Thought of you with love today, but that is nothing new. I thought about you yesterday, and days before that too. I think of you in silence, I often speak your name. All I have are memories and a picture in a frame. Your memory is a keepsake, with which I’ll never part. God has you in His keeping, I have you in my heart”. Anonymous. 

Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. at Lindquist’s Ogden Mortuary, 3408 Washington Blvd. 

Interment, Lindquist’s Memorial Gardens of the Wasatch, 1718 Combe Road.