WILLIAM H. HEGEMAN 1878 - 1955

HEGEMAN, DOUGHERTY, MINEGAR, ZOLL, REGAN, GOLTZ, BRANDT, CHAMPION

Posted By: Jeannie Hegeman (email)
Date: 7/13/2005 at 22:22:31

WELL KNOWN WAUKON MAN BURIED YESTERDAY - William H. Hegeman, 76 Passed Away Saturday - Death came as a blessed relief to William H. Hegeman, 76, at the Veterans Memorial Hospital in Waukon Saturday evening where he had been a patient since last fall. He has been in failing health the past couple of years and death resulted from a series of paralytic strokes. William H. Hegeman was born December 29, 1878 at Keokuk, a son of Mr. and Mrs. T.J. Hegeman and following his education in the schools of that city was graduated from the University of Chicago. He followed the teaching profession for years and came to Waukon in 1900 where he taught in the city schools for a number of years. On June 20, 1905 he was married to Miss Jeanette Dougherty of Waukon at St Patrick's Church, who survives as do their four children, Donald of Waukon; Robert of Chicago; Mary Frances, San Francisco; Catherine (Mrs Aldo Minegar) of Dubuque. Other immediate survivors include his three sisters, Jennie, Rena and Norma Hegeman, all of Keokuk, 14 grandchildren and 1 great grandchild. He was kind and considerate, a highly educated gentleman well known throughout Allamakee county and has been retired for some time past due to ill health. He was a life long Catholic and member of the Toastmaster's club in Waukon. Besides Waukon, the family lived for a number of years at northwood where he was superintendent of the city schools. The funeral services were held from the Bakke-Hanson Home to St Patrick's Church at nine o'clock yesterday morning with Rev. John McDonald offering the Mass of Requiem. Burial was made in Mount Olivet Cemetery with long time friends Vic Zoll, Charles Regan, Harry Minegar, Dale Goltz, Kenneth Brandt and Thomas Champion of Decorah, a grandson through marriage, serving as casket bearers. All of his children and sisters were here for the funeral services.
- Allamakee Journal, June 29, 1955