Helene Kane 

 CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa --    Helene  (McDermott) Kane, of   1824  Mallory
St. S.W.,  died  Wednesday, Aug.  23, 2000,  at Mercy  Medical Center,
Cedar   Rapids, after   a brief illness.    Funeral Mass  will be   10
a.m. Saturday     at  St.  Wenceslaus   Church,   Cedar   Rapids.  The
Rev. Clarence   Frana, the   Rev.  Karl  Glovik   and the   Rev. James
Blocklinger will officiate. Burial will   be in Immaculate  Conception
Cemetery, Petersville. Visitation is 2:30-8 p.m.  Friday with a rosary
at 7 p.m. followed by a vigil wake  service at Murdoch-Linwood Funeral
Home,   Cedar  Rapids.  Helene   managed  the  hot    lunch program at
St. Ludmila School and  was on staff  at the Czech and Slovak National
Museum. Helene was born May  20, 1933, a  daughter of William Cleo and
Helena  (Beitenman) McDermott, Charlotte.  She  married James Kane  on
Oct. 4,1958, at St. Joseph's Catholic Church, DeWitt. She was a member
of  St. Wenceslaus  and  St. Ludmila Catholic   parishes, St.   Anne's
Circle  at St. Ludmila and Cedar  Rapids  Postal Auxiliary and a board
member   of St. Ludmila   Credit Union. Helene  was a  very giving and
loving person.  Instead of flowers, memorials  may be made to American
Diabetes  Association in  memory  of   Helene. Survivors include   her
husband,   James; sons,  Terrance   Kane,  Phoenix,  and Michael  Kane
(Dianne),  Cedar  Rapids;  daughters,  Ann   Ketelsen (Thomas),  Cedar
Rapids,  Mary Kane   Betsill  (David), Atlanta,  and  Jean Kane  Graff
(Joseph), Denver;  her grandchildren, Jennifer,  Adam,  Jody and Jacob
Kane, James  Betsill and Sarah  and Nicholas Graff; a brother, William
McDermott, DeWitt;  and sisters, Mary  Ryan, DeWitt, Teresa McDermott,
Chicago,  Ann Barrios,  San  Francisco,  and Joseph  McMahon, Surfside
Beach, S.C. She was preceded in death by a brother, Leonard McDermott;
and sisters, Lois Sterenchuk and Jean McDermott.

Thu. August 24,2000, Quad City Times
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