HELLERT, Francis M.

HELLERT, Francis M. (Oconto, WI, Jan. 10, 1918--Dubuque, IA, Nov. 8, 2002) A graduate of Oshkos State Teachers College with a bachelors degree in English in 1939, he received his master's degree from CLARKE COLLEGE in remedial reading in 1972.

The owned and operated KLEIH'S HARDWARE in Dubuque for twenty-one years before returning to teaching secondary education for seventeen years. Fifteen of those years was at DUBUQUE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL.

Hellert served on the Northeast Iowa Community College Board of Directors for ten years; Northeast Iowa Senior Corps of Retired Executives (Score) where he served as chairman for six years and was a charter member and served for eight years on the five member Social Workers Examiner Board for the State of Iowa. Hellert also served on the board for the Dubuque County Department o Human Services for nine years and was a former volunteer for several years at both BETHANY HOME and the DUBUQUE RESCUE MISSION. An elder and trustee of WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, he was a charter member of the Key City Rotary Club where he was a past vice president and a recipient of the Paul Harris Fellowship Award. Hellert was a 32nd degree Mason of the Scottish Rite Bodies of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; a member of the Dubuque High Twelve Club where he was a past president, the El Kahir Shriners of Cedar Rapids where he was a past president, the Dubuque Shrine Club, and a member of Phi Delta Kappa, a professional educator society. He was a charter member of the 62 Plus Club in Dubuque. He received the Volunteer Government Service Award from former Iowa Governor Terry Branstad.

His daughter-in-law was Susan Hellert.

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Source:

Obituaries, Telegraph Herald, November 10, 2002, p. 22