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The summer of 1917, the U.S. had finally entered World War I, and in Breeze Hill, Kansas, Helen was born to John and Josephine Mocnik. The couple had earlier immigrated through Ellis Island from the Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Solvenia) and settled in Kansas. Later they moved to Springfield, Illinois and finally Detroit.
Helen always had a great sense of humor. She'd like to recount on her wedding day to Leopold Strukel, the two were involved in an accident and so spent their wedding...