Helen Solem

Bertha Helen Sulem, was born in Lom, Norway on December 14th 1872. the death certificate lists cause of death as, exhaustion of involutional melancholia, on the 12th of December 1933, at the age of 60.

Her brother Thorsten "Tom" Sulem is buried in Mountain View Cemetery in Vancouver, he passed away on the 31st of August 1943, at the age of 75, in Vancouver. Helen's sister Mary Sulem,(1870-1946) was married to Ole Ringheim,(1859-1928), both buried in Creston, B.C. "Tom" and Helen lived together in Wynndel, where Tom had a mixed farm, specializing in fruit. Their father was Thomas John Sulem.

Creston Review, December 22, 1933
Wynndel has lost another highly respected citizen in the death of Miss Bertha Helen Sulem, who passed away at Essondale, B.C., on December 12th at the age of 62 years. Deceased was a native of Lom, Norway, and came to America with her parents, who first located at Watonwan, Minnesota, and later moved to Vidora, Saskatchewan, from which the deceased came to Wynndel in 1923, and had made her home with her brother, T. Sulem. The late Miss Sulem, while of a quiet and retiring disposition made many friends during her residence here and is survived by three sisters, Mrs. Gouper of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Mrs. Ringheim of Kimberley, Mrs. Smith of Wynndel, and one brother Tom Sulem, who resides here. Burial was at Essondale.

[ Typical at this time for indigent patients to be buried at P.M.H.,(Woodlands) burials would not start at Essondale,(actually was named Riverview Hospital by then) until 1958. ]