Helen Katherine Flinn, nee Strieunoski, passed from this life on June 5, 2023 at the age of 90.  She was surrounded by her loving family.  She was born in Madison, IL on August 7, 1932 to Alex and Anna Strieunoski.  She married in 1950 to her husband Robert, and began a life working in the family business, Flinn's Market. She was a devoted Christian and member of Immaculate Conception Church in Centreville, and later in Columbia, IL. After the closing of the family grocery store, she worked until the age of 80 for Shop n Save in St. Louis.  Helen always loved her casino time, shopping with daughters. She also enjoyed playing Bingo and Bunko with friends.  Exercise was another of her passions, along with pitching horseshoes, bowling leagues, crazy 8's, gardening, ceramics, singing in the church choir, cooking delicious meals for her family, watching her beloved Cardinals, and traveling.  Her most precious time was when she was surrounded by her loved ones.

She was preceded in death by her loving husband Robert, her parents, Anna and Alex, her sisters, Elizabeth, Dorothy, Rose, Jennie, and brother Tony, as well as infant sister Mary Ann who died shortly after birth
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She is survived by son Dewain J. Flinn (Gayle), daughter Patti A. Hoock (Steve), daughter Donna M. King, and son Bobby D. Criss (Stacey), grandchildren Joey, Andrea, Adam, Zach, Luke, Kelsey, Makaya, and Chandler, and great grandchildren Payton, Logan, Jax, Lydia, and Joanna.
Loving wife. mother, grandmother, and great grandmother.

Memorials may be made to the Alzheimer's Association, the Heart Association, or the American Cancer Society.

Visitation will be on Thursday June 15, 2023 from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at Braun Family Funeral Home 265 Quarry Rd. Columbia, IL.

Funeral procession will leave the funeral home on Friday at 9:30 am for a mass of Christian Burial at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Columbia, IL with Father Carl Scherrer officiating. Burial will be in Jefferson Barracks Natl. Cemetery, St. Louis, MO.

Arrangements entrusted to Braun Family Funeral Home, Columbia, IL.