Helen Dold Niemeir

Monday, February 26, 2018

Helen Dold Niemeir, age 95, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., made her way home to heaven on Sunday, Feb. 25, 2018. She was born March 3, 1922, in Sheldon, Mo., the daughter of Jules Keith Sawyer and Josephine Welker Sawyer. Helen grew up in Parsons, Kan., and attended schools there graduating from Parsons High School with the Class of 1940. She then completed a course of study at Labette Community College. In April of 1943, she married Howard H. Dold at a church in Dennis, Kan., prior to his deployment to Europe with the U.S. Army Combat Engineers. While living in Lawrence, Kan., after the war where Howard attended pharmacy school, a son was born to this union, Gaylord L. Dold. Wichita then became home for nearly 30 years. Howard died in May of 1975. In 1980, Helen was introduced by a friend to her friend’s brother, Glen Niemeir, who had also lost his spouse. Glen and Helen hit it off, and were married on June 1, 1980, at which time Helen retired from her position with Santa Fe Trail Transport in Wichita and moved with her groom to his farm on the Kansas/Missouri state line northeast of Fort Scott. Helen was a long-time member of the West Liberty United Methodist Church and the Order of the Eastern Star (first in Fulton and then Fort Scott). She loved to travel with her husband, Glen and their family in their Airstream travel trailer with the Wally Bryam Caravan Club throughout the U.S. and Canada, traveling over the years to many of the lower 48 states and also Alaska.

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