From the obituary at Helen’s funeral:

Born: July 3, 1932, in Rosholt, SD
Baptized: July 31, 1932, at Brandvold Lutheran, Rosholt, SD
Confirmation: November 17, 1946, at Brandvold Lutheran, Rosholt, SD
Married: June 27, 1954, Rosholt, SD
Passed away: June 1, 2010, Denver, CO
Burial: June 8, 2010, Fort Logan National Cemetery

Helen E. Knudsen was born July 3, 1932, in Rosholt, SD. She was baptized and confirmed at Brandvold Lutheran Church, a country church her family attended her entire youth. She graduated from New Effington High School in 1950.

Helen attended nursing school at Concordia St. Luke’s School of Nursing in Fargo, ND. She graduated in 1953 after spending her final year of college in Cook County Hospital in Chicago, IL.

Although they grew up only 20 miles apart, Helen met her future husband, Harland “Jake” Jacobson at a Lutheran National Youth Gathering in Saskatchewan, Canada. They married on June 27, 1954, in Brandvold Lutheran Church, Rosholt, SD.

Helen and Jake moved to Denver in 1956. Because of the nature of Jake’s engineering career, the family lived in many interesting places including two stays in Salt Lake City, Utah; twelve years in Honolulu, Hawaii; Anchorage, Alaska; and Denver where they lived on six different occasions. Helen and Jake retired in Denver.

Helen’s hobbies included crafts and reading. She loved to cook and bake.

Helen is survived by her children; daughter, son-in-law, grandchildren and great grandchildren, Laura, Michael, Kathryn and Elizabeth Fischer, grown sons Shawn/wife Anna, and Brian/wife Allison, and their families, Nevach, Isaiah, Aidan, Alivia and Ella Fischer who all reside in the Littleton/Highlands Ranch CO area; son, daughter-iin-law and grandsons, Tom, Susan, Eric, Nicholas, and Gabriel Jacobson who reside in Arvada, CA; brother George Knudsen of Rosholt, SD and sister Betth Lou Kuklish who resides in Fargo ND. She is preceded in death by her husband Harland Jacobson, grandson David Fischer, and her parents.