HUDSON, Ohio — Helen Irene Marsh (nee Moeckly), 92, passed away peacefully on Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012, in Crown Center at Laurel Lake, where she had been a resident since 2004.

Helen was born in Ankeny, Iowa, to the late Theodore and Ruth Moeckly. She was the beloved wife of the late Herbert Marsh, and the loving mother of Linda Marsh, Jeanne (Steven Shevell) Marsh, Loralee (Stephen Ruedrich) Marsh and Kathy (Vladimir Vekstein) Marsh; devoted grandmother of Lee, Lauren, Kathryn, Eric, Emily, Caitlin, Daniel, Phillip, Andrew and Carolyn; and great-grandmother of Holden, Julianne and Henry.

Helen was a graduate of Iowa State University , where she had been a member of Delta Zeta Sorority. She taught home economics in Monroe, Wis., for four years while her husband served in the Veterinary Corps of the U.S. Army in China in World War II. Upon reuniting, Helen helped her husband build and operate his large and small animal veterinary practice in Whitewater, Wis. Four years later, they relocated their growing family and the veterinary practice to Princeton, where Helen lived for the next 54 years.