Eugenia Heiniger (1930-2006)

HEINIGER, GROSE, GARTRELL, LOCKHART, MIKINSKI, LEUTHOLD

Posted By: Ames Tribune
Date: 7/15/2006 at 12:21:36

THE AMES TRIBUNE, Ames, Story County, Iowa, Tuesday, July 11, 2006.

Eugenia Heiniger
March 2, 1930-July 12, 2006
Eugenia "Jeanie" Grose Heiniger, 76, of Bern, Kan. died Wednesday July 12, at Sabetha Community Hospital. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m., Saturday, July 15, at Bern United Methodist Church in Bern, Kan.

Eugenia was born March 2, 1930, in Sabetha, Kan., the oldest child of Hiram Grose and Mary Bauman Grose. She attended District 99 Elementary School and graduated from Oneida High School in 1947. She attended Emporia State Teachers College and later attended Kansas State University. She then taught at District 99, Capioma and Oneida schools.

She married Wilfred David Heiniger June 15, 1952, in Oneida, Kan.. To this union were born four children: Ronnie, Cory, Susan and Sharon. They lived and farmed in the Powhattan, Kan., area for 23 years. During the time she was raising her family, she was a 4-H leader and substitute teacher and an active member of the Powhattan United Methodist Church and an extension homemaker unit. In 1976, she moved to Bern, where she was an active member of the Bern United Methodist Church, active in local and district UMW committees and co-proprietor of the Bern Clothes Rack for 26 years.

She was preceded in death by her husband on Sept. 12, 1975.

She is survived by their children and their spouses and families: Ronnie and Nancy Heiniger, of Edenton, N.C., Cory and Shelia Heiniger, of Fairview, Kan., Susan and Gregg Gartrell, of Stockton, Kan,. and Sharon and Larry Lockhart of Ames; one brother, Leonard Grose, of Bern, Kan.; two sisters, Aurellia Faye Mikinski, of Linwood, Kan., and Mary Kaye Leuthold, of Bern, Kan.; and 14 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

A family visitation will be from 6 to 8 tonight at Popkess Mortuary in Sabetha. Burial will be in Powhattan Cemetery.

Memorial contributions may be made to Bern United Methodist Church, Ronald McDonald House or Sabetha Community Hospital sent in care of the funeral home.

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