MY EDMONDS NEWS Posted: June 15, 2021
Helen Louise Wick
Passed peacefully on June 12th, 2021 at The Gardens of Marysville, Wa., less than eight weeks after the death of her husband, Carl. They were married for more than seventy-four years.
Helen was born to Florence M. (nee Dickert) and Charles O. Getgen on October 1st, 1925 in Williamsport, PA. She grew up in the town of Williamston, near Lansing, Michigan. There, she met her future husband, journeyed with him and supported him over the next seven decades. She was principally a homemaker, raising five children, sometimes alone while her husband served in Korea and during later work relocations. She was also someone who had a multitude of intense interests and a great desire to serve her community. Over the years, she was a Cub Scout leader and volunteered with a children’s clothing charity. She was a long-time volunteer with the National Archives and thoroughly researched her own family’s genealogy (she traced her family