Heeren, Gerd 1881-1972

HEEREN, HEEREN, GRAHLMAN, ALBRIGHT

Posted By: Linda Ewin Ziemann (email)
Date: 8/11/2003 at 20:49:23

Gerd Heeren

Gerd Wessels Heeren, 91, 110 Sixth Ave. SE died Sunday at Floyd Valley hospital after a long illness. He had been a resident at the hospital the last five years.

Funeral services will be Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. at the Mauer funeral chapel with Rev. Arnold Imbrock and Rev. William Striepe officiating. Burial will be in LeMars Memorial cemetery under direction of the Mauer funeral home.

Mr. Heeren was born Sept. 20, 1880, in Grant township, Plymouth county, a son of the late Herman and Anna Katherine Louise Grahlman Heeren.

He married Martha Albright Oct. 3, 1906, in LeMars. He farmed in Johnson township until retiring to LeMars in 1938. He was employed by an implement company for several years. Mr. Heeren was a member of St. John's American Lutheran church, LeMars.

Mrs. Heeren died in August 1963.

Survivors are a daughter, Mrs. Foster (Louise) Rowe of LeMars; a son, John of Compton, Calif.; a brother, John of LeMars, a grandson and four great grandchildren.

[noted on the obit.....this date: April 1972]
Note: Cemetery records give his birth year as 1881.