Scottsbluff Star Hearld Scottsbluff, NE 4 Jan 2007 Helen (Huber) Blum, 75, affectionately called Blumie by her immediate family, was called to heaven Sunday, December 31, 2006, at Heritage Estates in Gering. Her funeral will be held Thursday, January 4, 2007, at 10:30 a.m. at the Emmanuel Congregational Church in Scottsbluff with Pastor Doug Rupp officiating. Interment will be at Sunset Memorial Park in Scottsbluff. Friends who wish may call at the Jolliffe Funeral Home Wednesday from 10 a.m. until 8 p.m., and at the funeral. Memorials have been established to the church, the Nebraska West Diabetes Association, or the Parkinson's Foundation. Online condolences may be sent to www.jolliffefuneralhome.com or you may call Helen's daughter, Nancy Butcher, at (308) 631-5524. Helen was born May 19, 1931 at Bridgeport to Jacob and Katherine (Pfenning) Huber. She was the ninth of nine children. She attended rural C14 country school through the sixth grade at which time her parents moved to Bayard. She graduated from Bayard High School in 1948. She married Tom Blum on April 25, 1952, at the Zion Evangelical Church (Faith United Church of Christ) in Bayard, which was the church she was baptized and confirmed in. Tom and Helen farmed in the Morrill area for 22 years until Tom's sudden death in 1978 at the age of 47. She continued to live in Morrill until 2002 when she moved to Scottsbluff. In the spring of 2006 she moved to the Heritage Health Care Center. After a lengthy hospitalization she returned to Heritage Estates in December of 2006. She was an active member of the church and it's Mary Martha Circle until her health prevented her from doing so. She was a volunteer at Regional West Medical Center for many years and a member of the Lazy Daisy Garden Club. She is survived by her sons Mike Blum of Genoa and Brad Blum of Wauneta; daughter Nancy (Torry) Butcher of Mitchell; grandson Sam Blum of Wauneta and granddaughter Rachael Blum of Arkansas; brother Henry (Esther) Huber of Scottsbluff; and sister Irene (Sam) Kraus of Morrill. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband Tom, sisters Lydia Harimon, Mary Wickman, and Catherine Michal, and brothers Bill, Jake, and John Huber.