Helen K. Croskey, a homemaker and former registered nurse, died Sunday of complications of Alzheimer's disease at Frederick Villa Nursing Center in Catonsville. She was 89 and had lived in Catonsville since 1955.

Born in New York City, Helen Katherine Jurman was raised on a farm in Matawan, N.J. She earned a degree in nursing from Middlesex General Hospital in New Brunswick, N.J.

In 1935, she married Carl David Croskey, a ceramics engineer for Locke Insulator Co. in South Baltimore. He survives her.

A homemaker, she enjoyed handwork including crocheting and knitting. She was formerly active in duckpin bowling.

No service was planned.

In addition to her husband, she is survived by a daughter, Carol Ann Treude of Severn, two grandsons and two great-grandsons.