Heitmann, Clarence 1909-1951

HEITMANN, GRAGE

Posted By: Linda Mohning (email)
Date: 1/19/2012 at 10:48:56

C.E. Heitman. Funeral services were held Wednesday in Christ Lutheran church for Clarence E. Heitman, 42, who died unexpectedly in his home at Remsen early Monday, less than an hour after he had retired in apparently good health according to the Remsen Bell Enterprise.
Mr. and Mrs. Heitman had spent Sunday evening with farm neighbors, returning to their trailer home on the Heitman farm shortly before midnight. He died at 1 o’clock.
Death was ascribed to a blood clot reaching the heart from a 17 year old leg sore which resulted from severe burns.
Born July 22, 1909, on a farm 10 miles northeast of Remsen, he was the son of William and Catherine Heitman, and attained his scholastic education in the nearby rural school and in the Remsen public school.
He married Lillian Grage, member of another prominent Remsen family, in Christ church February 2, 1930.
The couple farmed the Heitman home place for seven years but abandoned farm life after Mr. Heitman suffered severe burns in a tractor gasoline explosion on the farm 17 years ago.
The moved to Remsen, buying the present N. J. Lauters house and acreage and occupying this place five years. Selling out in 1942 they moved to Salt Lake City and lived there two and a half years, then to Picao, Calif., where they operated a motor trailer court which they sold last summer. The couple returned to Remsen last September.
Living in a trailer on the Heitman farm, owned by Mr. Heitman’s mother, Clarence spent the summer making general repairs. They had planned moving back to California this fall.
Surviving are the widow, Lillian; his mother and a sister Viola, living at Woodward, Iowa. Preceding him in death were his father 1i 1933, and an infant brother.
Interment was made in the Remsen cemetery. – Le Mars Globe-Post, Aug. 13, 1951, page 7.