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- Buffalo News, The (NY) - April 7, 1995
Services for Helen G. Frerichs, an evangelist, gospel singer and church pianist, will be held at 10:30 A.M. Saturday in St. James Lutheran Church, Niagara Road and Rohr Street, Bergholz. Burial will be in the church cemetery.
Mrs. Frerichs, 74, formerly of Wheatfield Towers on Plaza Drive, died Wednesday (April 5, 1995) in Niagara Lutheran Home and Rehabilitation Center, Buffalo, after a long illness.
A native of Niagara Falls, the former Helen G. Humphries was a 1939 graduate of LaSalle High School in Niagara Falls.
She was a payroll cashier at Olin Mathieson Co. in Niagara Falls from 1939 to 1943.
Beginning in 1943, she and her husband operated a dairy farm in Bergholz.
Her husband, Theodore W., died in 1981.
As an evangelist and Christian musician, Mrs. Frerichs played the piano for many church events.
Survivors include a son, Russell; three daughters, VeNorma Ascari of Paterson, NJ, Pauline Rule of Washougal, Wash., and Claire Knowles; two brothers, Edgar Humphries of Newfane and Wilfred Humphries of West Palm Beach, Fla.; a sister, Joan Peters of East Syracuse; seven grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren
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