Helen Beatrice Norkelunas
1920 - 2004 (84 years)
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Name Helen Beatrice Norkelunas [1] Born 2 Jan 1920 Montreal, Quebec, Canada 
[1] Gender Female Baptism 20 Jan 1920 Arrival 12 Oct 1922 Lewiston, Niagara County, New York, USA Find A Grave Memorial Number 27846018 Graduation 16 Jun 1941 Rochester, Monroe County, New York, USA [2, 3] University of Rochester School of Nursing Occupation Nurse, first durng WWII, then in her husband's medical practice and finally at Edgar Nursing Home [1] _MILT Between 19 Jan 1943 and Nov 1945 [1, 3] LT. in the US Navy Nurse Corps (USNR); flight nurse serving in the Pacific during WWII Buried 2004 New Dorp, Richmond County, New York, USA [1, 4] - Moravian Cemetery; Section III, Subdivision J, Grave 6
Died 29 Oct 2004 Staten Island, Richmond County, New York, USA [1] Person ID I11213 obenlandGenealogy Last Modified 9 Aug 2018
Father Peter P. Norkelunas, b. 1896, Luthuania , d. 23 Sep 1971, Rochester, Monroe County, New York, USA (Age 75 years) Relationship natural Mother Amelia Kishke, b. 1896, England , d. 13 Jul 1973, New York, USA (Age 77 years) Relationship natural Married 3 Mar 1918 London, England [5, 6] Family ID F4511 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Edward Ernest Malarkey, b. 24 May 1915, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA , d. 5 Jan 1977, Staten Island, Richmond County, New York, USA (Age 61 years) Married 26 Sep 1945 Alameda, Alameda County, California, USA [3] Children 1. Elizabeth Marie Malarkey 2. Joseph Malarkey, b. 25 Sep 1946, Staten Island, Richmond County, New York, USA , d. 26 Sep 1946, Staten Island, Richmond County, New York, USA (Age 0 years) [natural]3. Barbara Elaine Malarkey 4. Robert James Malarkey, b. 16 Dec 1950, Staten Island, Richmond County, New York, USA , d. 16 Mar 2005, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA (Age 54 years) [natural]5. Margaret Ann Malarkey 6. Edward Peter Malarkey [natural] Last Modified 9 Aug 2018 Family ID F4500 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Obituary:
HELEN BEATRICE MALARKEY
Longtime Staten Islander Helen B. Malarkey, 84, of Great Kills, a World War II Navy nurse who worked alongside her husband in his Great Kills practice, died Friday at home.
Born Helen B. Norkelunas in Montreal, Canada, she moved to Rochester, N.Y., with her family when she was 2 years old.
She earned a nursing degree from the University of Rochester, where she met her husband, Edward Malarkey, then a medical student.
When World War II began, Mrs. Malarkey was determined to join the fight, but was initially rejected from the U.S. military for having been born outside the country. Refusing to be denied, she made a personal appeal to the Secretary of the Navy, who acquiesced and gave her special dispensation. According to her family, Mrs. Malarkey became a Navy flight nurse, serving in the Pacific from 1943 until the war ended in 1945.
Upon her return home, she married Dr. Malarkey.
The couple moved to Westerleigh in 1946 and briefly lived in Prince's Bay before settling in Great Kills in 1955. There, Dr. Malarkey launched a thriving medical practice, with his wife working as a nurse by his side.
After 32 years of marriage, Dr. Malarkey died in 1977.
For the next 11 years, Mrs. Malarkey worked at what now is Eger Health Care and Rehabilitation Center, Egbertville. She retired in 1988.
Mrs. Malarkey was a parishioner of St. Clare's R.C. Church, Great Kills.
"She was really a remarkably thoughtful and generous friend," said her daughter, Margo Malarkey. "Her friends were just really touched by knowing her. She was also a fabulous mother, of course."
Mrs. Marlarkey was a member of the Women's Auxiliary of the Richmond County Medical Society.
In addition to her daughter, Margo, surviving are two more daughters, Barbara Malarkey and Elizabeth Josephson; her two sons, Peter E. and Robert J., and a grandson.
The funeral will be tomorrow from the Casey-McCallum-Rice South Shore Funeral Home, Great Kills, with a mass at 11 a.m. in St. Clare's Church. Burial will follow in Moravian Cemetery, New Dorp.
The Staten Island Advance
Staten Island, NY
31 Oct 2004
From the files of
Cecilia Ann Obenland Backhaus Joder
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