Helene Spain
			     1959 - 2004

Helene Spain, 45, died Thursday, Jan. 22, 2004, at her home in rural
Bryant, Iowa.

Mass  of Christian  Burial will  be  10:30 a.m.  Monday at  Immaculate
Conception Catholic  Church, Petersville, Iowa. Father  Ed Botkin will
celebrate the  funeral Mass. Burial  will be in  Immaculate Conception
Cemetery, Petersville.  Pallbearers will be Joe  DeVine, Neal Blanche,
Mike, Tom and Todd McManus, Josh and Kevin Spain and Andy Hanson.

Visitation will be 2-8 p.m. Sunday at Schultz Funeral Home, DeWitt.

She  was born  Jan. 5,  1959,  in Clinton,  Iowa, to  Ronald and  Mary
(DeVine) Spain. On Dec. 12, 1987,  she was united in marriage to David
Cook in DeWitt, Iowa. Helene was  a high school English teacher in the
Northeast School District and a member  of the NCEA.  She was a member
of Immaculate Conception  Catholic Church, Petersville. Helene enjoyed
snow skiing,  music, walking, swimming, bike riding  and spending time
with her family.

Survivors include  her husband,  David Cook; three  sons all  at home,
Dylan Lee Cook,  Taylor Layne Cook and Riley  Daniel Cook; her mother,
Mary Spain,  DeWitt; her mother-in-law and  father-in-law, Michael and
Nancy Cook, Greenville, S.C.;  three sisters, Mary Kay (Mike) McManus,
DeWitt,  Jo Ellen  (Dave) Hanson,  Rochester, Minn.,  and  Barbara Ann
(Tom)  Skoff, Sugar Creek,  Iowa; three  brothers, Bob  Spain, Ankeny,
Iowa, Bill  (Chris) Spain, Charlotte, Iowa, and  Perry (Julene) Spain,
Goose  Lake, Iowa;  and her  best friend,  Diane (Mrs.  David) Noland,
Swansboro,  N.C. Helene  was preceded  in death  by her  father  and a
brother, Jim.  

Quad-City Times
Jan. 23, 2004
Virtually the same article was
also in the Clinton Herald, Jan. 23.