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aliases	category	tags	summary	died	location	relations	created	updated
Helen E. Wissman Helen Wissman Hoersch	Other	AbuseNetworks Person RCHorsch Philadelphia Olney	Philadelphia grandmother of the pornographer R.C. Horsch, who died in 1968 at the family house on West Chew Street in Olney.	1968-08-27	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	type with end fn spouse_of Albert Hoersch 1968 1 type with role fn relative_of Raymond C. Hoersch mother 2 type with role fn relative_of R.C. Horsch grandmother 1 type with role fn relative_of Helen M. Hoersch mother 2	2026-09-23	2026-10-28

Helen E. Hoersch, born Helen E. Wissman (died August 27, 1968), was the wife of Albert Hoersch of West Chew Street in the Olney, Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, and the paternal grandmother of the pornographer and fugitive R.C. Horsch. The house was later owned by R.C. Horsch and from 2006 by his son Eugene Horsch, and was searched in the Olney House Investigation of 2026.¹²³

Her death notice, which gives her address as the Chew Street house, invited relatives, friends, and Grace United Methodist Church (Philadelphia) to a viewing and to a service at the Schneider Funeral Home, 617-619 West Olney Avenue, with burial in Hillside Cemetery. Her husband's death notice of 1972, which spells her maiden name Wissmer, names their children as Albert Jr., Raymond C. Hoersch, and Helen M. Hoersch.¹²

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1. "Hoersch, Helen E. Wissman," death notice, The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 29, 1968, p. 32. https://www.newspapers.com/image/182120759/ ↩︎

2. "Hoersch, Albert," death notice, The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 3, 1972, p. 10. https://www.newspapers.com/image/180006503/ ↩︎

3. "How a pornographer's violent fantasies blurred fact and fiction as cops searched Olney house for missing women," The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 2, 2026. https://www.inquirer.com/news/a/raymond-eugene-horsch-olney-philadelphia-missing-women-history-20260802.html ↩︎