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At 96 years of age, Helene passed away on Sunday January 31
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, at the Eastpointe Rehabilitation and Skilled Care Center in Chelsea where she was receiving supportive care for the past few months. Born, raised and lifelong resident of Chelsea she was the beloved daughter of the late Anthony and Maryanne (Matys) Jakusiak. Helene attended St. Stanislaus Parochial School and was graduated from Chelsea High School. Early on she began her working career with New England Telephone and Telegraph Co., in Boston, beginning work as a switchboard operator and later in the Business office in Boston, she transitioned along with New England Tel & Tel. Co, to NYNEX before retiring from a career that lasted for more than two score years. She was a lifelong parishioner and communicant of St. Stanislaus Church in Chelsea and was longtime member of the Telephone Pioneers of America. She was a past member of the former St. Stanislaus Get Together Club and the Chelsea Senior Citizens Club. In her lifetime she enjoyed working as a volunteer at the Chelsea Soldiers Home, Quigley Hospital and at the Whidden Memorial Hospital. She also enjoyed traveling. In addition to her parents Helene was also predeceased by all of her siblings and their spouses; the late John Jakusiak, Alexander and Helen F. Jakusiak, Mary and John Dobbs, Edna and Andy Soja, Chester and Connie Jakusiak and Stanley Jakuisiak. She was the cherished aunt of Joanne Stevens and her late husband Danny, Bernadette Hockney and her late husband George, Marcia Aloi and her husband Fred, Felicia Schwindt, Janice Hitchcock and her husband Al, the late Maryanne Jakusiak, Virginia Stevens and Patricia Hatfield, dear step-aunt to Gloria Morris, Lawrence Scacchi, Maryanne Scacchi, and the late Diane Testa. Cherished great and great grandaunt of Jeffrey and Debbie Aloi with their daughter Theresa, Victoria and Patrick Curran with their children Alannah and Martin, Brian and Jill Hockney and their two daughters Emily and Allie, Gary Hockney and she is also survived by many additional great-nieces, great-nephews, great-grandnieces and great-grandnephews.
Her Funeral will begin from the Frank A. Welsh & Sons Funeral Home 718 Broadway CHELSEA on Saturday February 6 th , at 9:00 A.M. Followed by a Funeral Mass of Christian Burial at St. Stanislaus Church 163 Chestnut St. Chelsea at 10:00 A.M. Services will conclude with Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery, Malden. Relatives and friends are most kindly invited to attend. Visiting hours will be held at the Welsh Funeral Home on Friday from 4 - 7 P.M. Funeral Home fully handicap accessible, ample parking opposite Funeral Home.
Should friends desire, contributions in her memory may be made to a charity of their choice.
Her Funeral will begin from the Frank A. Welsh & Sons Funeral Home 718 Broadway CHELSEA on Saturday February 6 th , at 9:00 A.M. Followed by a Funeral Mass of Christian Burial at St. Stanislaus Church 163 Chestnut St. Chelsea at 10:00 A.M. Services will conclude with Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery, Malden. Relatives and friends are most kindly invited to attend. Visiting hours will be held at the Welsh Funeral Home on Friday from 4 - 7 P.M. Funeral Home fully handicap accessible, ample parking opposite Funeral Home.
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Funeral Services
Mass of Christian Burial
February
6
Saturday
St. Stanislaus B.M. Church
Starts at 10:00 am
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