Helen J. Farlow, 88, of Fremont, died Tuesday, Dec. 2, 1997, at Crowell Memorial Home in Blair.

Private family services were Monday at Moser Memorial Chapel in Fremont. Rev. Dave Korth of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Fremont officiated.

Mrs. Farlow was born Aug. 1, 1909, in Deer River, Minn. To Earl and Beatrice (Sullivan) Van Nest. She grew up in Minnesota and was a graduate of the University of Minnesota. She taught in high schools in South Dakota, North Dakota and Iowa for 50 years. She also gave piano lessons. She lived at International Falls, Minn. And then Cedar Falls, Iowa, before moving to Fremont in August 1987. She had been at Crowell Memorial Home in Blair since December 1992.

She attended St. Patrick’s Catholic Church; was a former member of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church at Cedar Falls and was a member of the PTA in Iowa and the Beaver Hills Golf Club at Cedar Falls. She married Louis Thompson at Brookings, SD, in 1936. She married Paul Farlow in 1979 at Cedar Falls. Survivors are her son and daughter-in-law, Jerry and Jean Thompson of Manheim, Penn.; a daughter and son-in-law, Barb and Gene Merz of Arlington; nine grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Louis Thompson in May 1975; her husband, Paul Farlow in 1982; brothers, Dick Van Nest and Don Van Nest; a sister, June Ditmore and two grandchildren.

Memorials may be given to the Alzheimer’s Association or the donor’s choice.