Helen Lorraine Koester Timm, 84, passed away Tues., July 14, 2015 at her home in Padroni. Visitation will be Fri., July 17 from 10am until 6pm with family receiving friends from 4pm until 6pm at Chaney-Reager Funeral Home. Funeral service will be Sat., July 18 at 10am at Emmanuel Baptist Church with interment at Riverside Cemetery.

Helen, "Lenny" was born to Alfred and Mary Tadolini on May 6, 1931 at her home just west of Padroni. She attended Padroni Schools and graduated in 1949. On February 12, 1950, she married her high school sweetheart, Lenard Koester. They farmed on the Koester homestead, 12 miles west of Padroni, where they raised two sons, Danny & Doug. In 1979 they moved to the town of Padroni, where she began running the Padroni Post Office.

Helen was widowed in 1985. After Lenard's death, she enjoyed attending dances all around the area which lead her to Verl Timm, whom she married on November 21, 1993.

Helen was a school bus driver for RE-1 Valley School District from 1969 to 1998. She was the Secretary/Treasurer for the Padroni Alumni. She helped organize the banquet held each year. Helen also spent the last 36 years as the Padroni Postmaster. The post office was an important part of her life as she continued to work at keeping it open. She was able to close her daily duties in the post office on the day she passed away.

Helen enjoyed spending time with her family, watching sports (especially the Rockies, Duke & Caliche), attending Logan County Fair, handing out All-Around Belt Buckles for the kids rodeo, making "Hel-a-roos", playing gin & hosting Padroni Goof-off on Friday mornings. In her younger years, Helen enjoyed volunteering at the kids 4-H rodeo, dressing up for Halloween, camping, dancing at dutch hops, listening to the Polk-a-Nuts, farming, decorating cakes, giving haircuts, doing permanents, sewing, & gardening, along with many other things.

Helen is preceded in death by her parents, husband Lenard, son Danny, brother John Tadolini, and sister Norma Asnicar. She is survived by her husband Verl, son Doug, daughter in law Nancy, granddaughter Kasey and husband Brent Pearce, grandson Ryan and wife Miranda, and granddaughter Kelsey and husband Robby Hendrix, six great grandsons Ryder, Hunter and Dexter Pearce and Jett, Jack, and Joey Koester, and great granddaughter due in October, brother Frank Tadolini and wife Virginia, brothers Sil Tadolini & Archie Tadolini, sisters Katie Stroup and Inez Bass and husband Ed Bass, and many nieces and nephews.

Contributions may be made to the Caliche Scholarhsip Foundation.