Helen Sundstrom was born August 6, 1908 at Cypress Mill, TX to parents Reinhold and Ulrika (Kellersberger) Schroeter. She died March 9, 2008 at Waterford at All Saints in Sioux Falls, SD at the age of 99 years, 7 months and 3 days. Helen graduated from Plainview High School in Texas and from the University of Texas at Austin in 1931 with an MA in social sciences. She taught rural school near Austin, TX for 20 years. Helen served a term as District Clerk of Travis County, TX and in 1947 was appointed as secretary in the Supreme Court of Texas, serving there until her retirement in 1960. Helen married Raymond Sundstrom on September 26, 1950. He was an engineer with the USES and was a native of Beresford, SD. Beginning in the 1960s, Helen accompanied her husband on assignments in Egypt and later in Delaware. After Rays retirement in 1979, the couple moved to Sioux Falls, SD. Helen was active in civic and educational affairs in Sioux Falls. She served as president of the Senior Citizens Center (now the Center for Active Generations), and was active in AAUW, NARFE, South Dakota Symphony League, and was a dedicated member of the United Methodist Church in Beresford. She is survived by her brother-in-law Sam Sundstrom of Beresford; sister-in-law Della Droll of Dixon, CA; niece Barbara Woolf of Dixon , CA and nephew Alex Schroeter of Amarillo, TX. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband and three brothers. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 PM, Thursday, March 13, 2008 at the Beresford Zion United Methodist Church with burial at Brooklyn Cemetery, rural Beresford. Visitation will be Wednesday from 2PM to 7PM with a prayer service at 6PM at Wass Funeral Home in Beresford.