Her family will always remember Helen J. Turpin as a strong and steady person.
Mrs. Turpin raised a virtual menagerie of poultry and fowl, including quail,chicken, pheasant, chukar, peacock, duck and rabbit during much of her life.
Mrs. Turpin and her sister, Eleanor Turpin, married twin brothers they met walking to Froebel High School.
"Dad smarted off to mom and she squirted him with a water hose," her son recalled his mother's story about the day they met.
Eleanor said her sister enjoyed bowling and bunco for years. "She played bunco in Portage for 30 years. Eight of the original club members still play once a month."
In recent years the sisters provided more than 500 lap robes for 14 nursing homes in Lake and Porter counties. "Helen would do the crocheting and I would
deliver them," she said.
Mrs. Turpin was the family baker. She made nut rolls, fancy cakes for parties and graduations and special Christmas cookies.
She also loved African violets.
Mrs. Turpin raised a virtual menagerie of poultry and fowl, including quail,chicken, pheasant, chukar, peacock, duck and rabbit during much of her life.
Mrs. Turpin and her sister, Eleanor Turpin, married twin brothers they met walking to Froebel High School.
"Dad smarted off to mom and she squirted him with a water hose," her son recalled his mother's story about the day they met.
Eleanor said her sister enjoyed bowling and bunco for years. "She played bunco in Portage for 30 years. Eight of the original club members still play once a month."
In recent years the sisters provided more than 500 lap robes for 14 nursing homes in Lake and Porter counties. "Helen would do the crocheting and I would
deliver them," she said.
Mrs. Turpin was the family baker. She made nut rolls, fancy cakes for parties and graduations and special Christmas cookies.
She also loved African violets.
Her family will always remember Helen J. Turpin as a strong and steady person.
Mrs. Turpin raised a virtual menagerie of poultry and fowl, including quail,chicken, pheasant, chukar, peacock, duck and rabbit during much of her life.
Mrs. Turpin and her sister, Eleanor Turpin, married twin brothers they met walking to Froebel High School.
"Dad smarted off to mom and she squirted him with a water hose," her son recalled his mother's story about the day they met.
Eleanor said her sister enjoyed bowling and bunco for years. "She played bunco in Portage for 30 years. Eight of the original club members still play once a month."
In recent years the sisters provided more than 500 lap robes for 14 nursing homes in Lake and Porter counties. "Helen would do the crocheting and I would
deliver them," she said.
Mrs. Turpin was the family baker. She made nut rolls, fancy cakes for parties and graduations and special Christmas cookies.
She also loved African violets.
Mrs. Turpin raised a virtual menagerie of poultry and fowl, including quail,chicken, pheasant, chukar, peacock, duck and rabbit during much of her life.
Mrs. Turpin and her sister, Eleanor Turpin, married twin brothers they met walking to Froebel High School.
"Dad smarted off to mom and she squirted him with a water hose," her son recalled his mother's story about the day they met.
Eleanor said her sister enjoyed bowling and bunco for years. "She played bunco in Portage for 30 years. Eight of the original club members still play once a month."
In recent years the sisters provided more than 500 lap robes for 14 nursing homes in Lake and Porter counties. "Helen would do the crocheting and I would
deliver them," she said.
Mrs. Turpin was the family baker. She made nut rolls, fancy cakes for parties and graduations and special Christmas cookies.
She also loved African violets.
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