The family will receive friends at Shannon Rufe Snow Funeral chapel for a Funeral Service on Saturday, April 20, 2019 at 3:00p.m.
Helga was born in April of 1929 in Berlin, Germany, which is where she met her husband, William an American soldier, during the war. They were married in 1947 and welcomed their first child into the world in 1948. Among the things Helga enjoyed were swimming and sharing her encyclopedic knowledge of dirty jokes accumulated over the decades of owning a restaurant/bar and tending bar.
Helga is preceded in death by her late husband, William Bratek, her beloved children, David Bratek, Kathleen Soldner and Janet Wawro, as well as her sister, Trauchen Theus.
Helga is survived by her daughter, Joanne Kleidon and her husband, Greg and grandson Aaron Kleidon; son-in-law, David Wawro and grandchildren Bethany, Nicole and Andrew Wawro; son-in-law, Bobby Soldner; sister, Ilse Backus, and her husband, Merwin and her bother in law, Gunter Theus.