byCaterpillar Tractor Co. in Joliet. Illinois. Linda and Ed have two daughters:

SUSIE MARIE PARTAK, 17g

b.Ottawa, IL;  Sep. 1963

KAREN LYNN PARTAK, 17g

b.Ottawa, IL;  May 1967

Sue is attending Northern Illinois University at Dekalb. She is majoring in Art and hopes to be an illustrator in wild life. Karen, a graduate of Ottawa High School, attained National Honor Society.

In 1982 Linda started a new job; Court Clerk to the Chief Judge. Her greatest challenge has been to raise children during the violent sixties, the drug crazed seventies and seeing an adult and teen-age daughter bloom into very nice, well-adjusted people. "This has been my greatest pleasure and most important accomplishment."

Oct 2005 Linda left us to spend eternity with her loved ones who had went ahead.

Linda's obituary read as follows

OTTAWA - Linda Cheryl Partak, 62, of Ottawa, died Friday, Oct. 28, at OSF

St. Francis Medical Center in Peoria.

Mass of Christian burial will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at St. Columba

Catholic Church with the Rev. David Kipfer officiating. Burial will be in

St. Columba Cemetery. Visitation will be from 3 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at

Gladfelter Funeral Home with liturgical prayers at 3.

Mrs. Partak was born Nov. 24, 1942, in Peoria, to Gail and Mary (Barler)

Helle. She married Edward Partak on Feb. 11, 1963, in Ottawa.

She was employed by the 13th Judicial Court in Ottawa as an administrative

assistant.

She is survived by her husband; two daughters, Susan (Ron) Marconi of Seneca

and Karen Partak of Lafayette, Colo.; her mother of Ottawa; two

grandchildren, Sarah and Nathan Marconi; two sisters, Marigail (Leonard)

Roberts and Jeannie (Jim) Gebhardt, both of Ottawa; and a brother, Robert

(Carol) Helle of Williamsburg, Iowa.

She was preceded in death by a daughter, Katherine Jean Frecchio; and her

father.

Pallbearers will be Ron Marconi, Robert, Stephen, Michael and Ryan Roberts

and Yannick Meillier.

Memorials may be directed to the family.

SANDRA JEANNE "JEANNIE" HELLE, 16g (Gail 15,

George A. 14, Frederick 13)

b.Kewanee, IL;  Mar. 1946

m.Ottawa, IL; Zion Lutheran Church;  May 1964

HOWARD JAMES GEBHARDT, son of Howard

LaVerne and Florence (Rowe) Gebhardt

b.Streator, IL;  Aug. 1944

SANDRA JEANNE "JEANNIE" HELLE, the third daughter of Gail and Mary Bernice (Barler) Helle, most vividly recalls the birth of her little brother when she was ten years old, ". . . having a boy after three girls was quite ajoy for all of us. We were all delighted, let me tell you." At a younger age, about eight years old, she had the privilege of riding with her father in his semi-truck. He was smoking a cigar and Jeannie asked if she could have a puff. Of course, he refused but she kept insisting until he finally let her take a puff: "I took more than just a puff. I think I turned green because I finally climbed back in the bunk and thought I was going to lose my stomach. To this day I hate cigars and every time I smell one I think of my Dad and what a trick he pull-ed on me but what a hard lesson I had to learn. He was a great man and I will always admire him for his great talent for raising kids. He was one in a million.

At age eighteen Jeannie married HOWARD JAMES

GEBHARDT. Howard served a tour of duty in the United States Army and during that time Jeannie accompanied him while he served in Germany which she recalls as very beautiful. Jeannie and Howard have four daughters:

JULIE ANN GEBHART, 17g

b.Fayetteville, NC;  Feb. 1965

KATHLEEN SUE GEBHARDT, 17g

b.Ottawa, IL;  June 1968

KRISTINE MARIE GEBHARDT, 17g

b.Ottawa, IL;  Sep. 1973

JAMIE LYNN GEBHARDT, 17g

b.Ottawa, IL;  Aug. 1978

ROBERT "BOB" LLOYD HELLE, 16g (Gail 15, George

A.14, Frederick 13)

b.Ottawa, IL;  Feb. 1956

m.Williamsburg, IA; St. Paul Lutheran Church; 1 Dec. 1979

CAROL RAE DOEHRMANN, daughter of Ronald E. and Alberta Jean (Freeman)

Doehrmann

b.Williamsburg, IA; 28 June 1956

m.1st - LEROY BRECHT

d.1975

Carol brought a daughter into the marriage: RACHELE LEA BRECHT (b. Iowa City, IA; 5 Sep. 1973). Bob and Carol have twin daughters:

BREENA JEANE HELLE, 17g

b.Iowa City, IA;  Dec. 1982

NICHOLE GAIL HELLE, 17g

b.Iowa City, IA;  Dec. 1982

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