Maydell Marie (Helgren) Prinz

MayDell Marie (Helgren) Prinz, age 88, of Elgin passed away Thursday morning, January 12, 2017, surrounded by her family.

MayDell was born in the Type community of Williamson County, TX to Paul and Agda Helgren on May 27, 1928, the youngest of seven children.  She was Baptized and Confirmed at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in the Lund community and graduated from Elgin High School. MayDell married Edgar Prinz on March 7, 1948 and they were blessed with three children. She was a homemaker and helped her husband on the farm but during a drought, with crop failing she went to work for Weed Instruments and retired after 35 years of service.  MayDell was a member of the St. Peter’s Lutheran Church of Elgin.  She loved watching sports, especially the Houston Astro’s, Texas Ranger’s, and the Dallas Cowboys, but her true love was watching her grandchildren play sports in which she rarely missed.

MayDell “Grammy” was a loving, kind and caring wife, mother, and grandmother.  She was a great role model to our family.  Grammy was a great inspiration, she taught her family how to work hard, enjoy the simple things in life and how to be together as a family.  For many, many, summers Grammy loved vacationing with her family at the beach.

She was preceded in death by her parents,; husband, a brother Oscar Helgren,  sisters Pauline Madsen, Ruby Prinz, Mildred Mc Clellan, Marjorie Prinz.

MayDell is survived by her son Edgar Prinz Jr, and wife Dianna, daughter Patsy Payne and husband Ward, daughter Janet Evans and husband Gary, and a brother Clarence Helgren and wife Wilma.

She is also survived by  8 grandchildren; Alan Heinzke and husband Grant Hennig; Christy Joseph and Adam Tabor; Scott Prinz and wife Jennifer ; Jennifer Prinz and fiance' Jarred Stone, Candace Lochridge and husband Reagan,  Erik Prinz and wife Jennifer; , Misty Evans, and fiance' Cory Glasgow,  Melissa Maedgen and husband Dustin, 16 great grandchildren; Chad Hennig; Austin and Justin Heinzke, Evan Joseph, Tyler, Gage and Taylor Prinz, McCrae and Maison Williamson, and Cole Davis, Payne and Presley Lochridge, Kennedy Prinz, Kori-Reese, Carter, and Christian Glasgow

A  Special thanks to her caregivers Stella, Janie and many others from Elgin Rehabilitation and Nursing Center.

The family will receive guest 6:00pm- 8:00pm Saturday, January 14, 2017, Providence-Jones family Funeral Home.  A Celebration of MayDell’s Life will be held 2:00 PM, Sunday, January 15, 2017, Providence-Jones Family Funeral. She will be laid to rest next to her husband in the Elgin Cemetery.

Memorials may be made to St. Peter’s Lutheran Church or Alzheimer’s Association