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About Helen Brodkey
http://www.chbmeng.ohio-state.edu/~brodkey/genealogy/web/thebrodkey...
Helen Brodkey, affectionately remembered as "the boss" of her advice-column-writing twin sisters, Ann Landers and Abigail Van Buren, died Saturday in Omaha. She was 92. Brodkey died one day before the first anniversary of Ann Landers' death. Landers, born Esther Pauline "Eppie" Friedman, died June 22, 2002, in Chicago. Her twin, Pauline Esther "Popo" Phillips, who wrote the Dear Abby column under the pen name Abigail Van Buren, will turn 85 on July 4. She lives in Minneapolis.
Brodkey's granddaughter Sharon Brodkey of Omaha said her grandmother had been in failing health since Mother's Day. "She was a very smart, very swanky lady," Sharon Brodkey said. "She was very devoted to family and to charity."
Services will be at 10 a.m. today at Golden Hill Cemetery, near 42nd Street and Grand Avenue.
Brodkey was born Helen Friedman on June 3, 1911, in Sioux City, Iowa. She married David Brodkey, a member of the Brodkey Brothers jewelry family in Omaha, in 1933. David Brodkey died in 1976. The famous twin sisters came to Omaha in 2001 to celebrate Helen Brodkey's 90th birthday party and called her a "wonderful big sister." Brodkey dreamed of becoming an actress, her sister Ann Landers recalled during the party, and was accepted to study at a drama school in Chicago. But it was the Great Depression, and the school closed, she said.
Years ago, when Landers published Brodkey's meatloaf recipe in her column, "I got letters addressed to 'Meatloaf, Omaha,'" Brodkey was fond of recalling. "The mailman told me he was afraid of getting a hernia." "My twin and I were always getting into mischief," Landers said in 2001. "Helen was always sort of bailing us out."
Other survivors include sons Ron of Omaha and Robert of Washington, D.C.; and grandchildren Alfred of Omaha and David and Naomi, both of Washington, D.C.
- Residence: Marital Status: SingleRelation to Head: Daughter, Sioux City, Woodbury, Iowa - Jan 1 1925
- Residence: Age: 18Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Daughter, Sioux City, Woodbury, Iowa - 1930
- Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Jun 27 2017, 17:34:33 UTC
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Helen Brodkey's Timeline
| 1911 |
June 3, 1911
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Sioux City, Woodbury, Iowa, United States
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| 1936 |
September 13, 1936
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Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, United States
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September 27, 1940
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| 2003 |
June 21, 2003
Age 92
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Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, United States
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