HEIKES, Swaantje (1864-1934)

HEIKES, HILLENGA, BUSH, PRUNE

Posted By: Hancock Co Genealogical Society (email)
Date: 9/19/2013 at 11:10:24

Mrs. S. Heikes Died Near Hutchins; Buried at Woden, Sunday P.M.

Miss Swaantje Heikes died at the home of her niece, Mrs Harm Hillenga, Friday. Miss Heikes was born to Mr. and Mrs. Peter Heikes at Ostfriesland, Germany, in 1864. Besides her niece, Mrs. Hillenga, with whom she has made her home the past 18 years, the following are left to survive: two sisters, Mrs. Reinhardt Bush, of Ellsworth, Minn., and Mrs. Grace Prune of Parkersburg; three brothers, Peter, of Ellsworth, Minn., Martin, of Bronsdale, Minn., and one in Germany.

Funeral services were held Sunday at one-thirty at the home and two o'clock at the German Christian Reformed church southwest of Woden, the Rev. D. J. Meyer in charge. Interment was made in the cemetery near the church.

source: Garner Leader & Signal 17 Oct 1934, page 7