Heidesch, John 1864-1917

HEIDESCH

Posted By: Linda Ziemann (email)
Date: 3/21/2005 at 11:37:50

LeMars Sentinel newspaper
Dated 06 Feb 1917

Remsen: (from the Bell Enterprise.)
Another one of the highly respected residents of this vicinity passed away Monday evening at seven thirty o’clock when Joseph Heidesch went to his reward, following an illness of four months with cancer of the esophagus. Mr. Heidesch was fifty-three years of age. He is survived by his wife and eight children, the oldest twenty-three and youngest seven years. Joseph Heidesch was born April 27, 1864, in the village of Baschel, Canton Wiltz, Grand Duche of Luxemburg, and came to this country in 1885, at the age of twenty-three years. Fro five years he worked as a farm hand around Remsen and LeMars, and February 12, 1890, he was united in marriage by Father Meis, in LeMars, to Miss Lucy Colling. The couple went to farming and occupied places around Remsen and LeMars ever since, living at the time of the husband’s death, on the old Huewe place southeast of Remsen. To this union eight children were born, and all of them are living at home. They are Clara, John, Mary, Rosa, Mathilda, Freddie, Leo and Joseph. Besides there he is survived by two brothers, William of Remsen, and Nicholas, now residing in Belgium, and a sister, Mrs. Nicholas Kirpes, also of Remsen. He also has a nephew who is a priest in Belgium, and a number of other close relatives in Luxemburg and Belgium.